Canada Post's Search Sucks
Apr. 12th, 2008 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dcseainI was trying to find a post code for:
9326 200th St
Langley BC
Canada Past said it did not exist. So i went to Google, and found V1M 3A6. Did a reverse lookup at Canada Post on the postcode, and it returned:
So, it cannot parse 200th when it expects 200. BAD design. Even Sepomex, the Mexican postal service, handles fuzzy searches when it comes to addresses. So a stick to Canada Post/Poste Canada for their search functionality.
9326 200th St
Langley BC
Canada Past said it did not exist. So i went to Google, and found V1M 3A6. Did a reverse lookup at Canada Post on the postcode, and it returned:
9240-9540 200 ST LANGLEY BC V1M 3A6 (even)
So, it cannot parse 200th when it expects 200. BAD design. Even Sepomex, the Mexican postal service, handles fuzzy searches when it comes to addresses. So a stick to Canada Post/Poste Canada for their search functionality.
