And yet that may just replace machine-encoded biases with human-habit biases:
sport of sacred spherical cows (@beadsland@hcommons.social)
@dymaxion@infosec.exchange @KatS@chaosfem.tw @futurebird@sauropods.win Once had something shipped to me from Germany that got caught in a USPS mail loop because the shipper was confused by my unit number, and used it for the building number on the routing label, insisting all the while that they had reproduced my address exactly as given to them.
hcommons.social (hcommons.social)
To be clear, in Usia, building numbers appear at the beginning of the line, where unit numbers appear at the end. In Germany, building number appears at the end of the line.
So now you, as a German shipper, prepare a routing label for a Usian address that ends with a unit number. You're given a freeform multi-line text field, but the courier wants specific fields. What ends up in the building number field depends on how cognizant you are of the difference between German and Usian addressing practices.