Instant page load and form submission processing.
No captcha checks.
No weird javascript address validators (half of them think my address is malformed).
No needlessly "cute" page design/graphics.
No problems with any of the slew of privacy and ad-blocking tools I have installed.
Filled in my address and email, clicked submit, done. Seconds later, I had an email from them confirming it.
This is proof that government can work just fine. Guarantee that if this had been a private contracted thing we would have ended up with some monstrosity of browser-choking javascript, needlessly cutesy page design, etc.
Can we please bring this sort of simplicity and efficiency to paying income tax / calculating withholdings and W4s? Or, FFS, everything the IRS does?
And how about a national ID system, please? We already have nearly 1% of the US population in such a system: the DoD's Common Access Card. Lessons learned from that could easily be applied to a national digital/physical ID card. The crap I (and especially my parents) had to go through to prove to my DMV that we were honest-to-god citizen and could have a RealID drivers license...which isn't actually useful for anything except getting on a plane or into a federal building...was insane. And embarrassing, for a "first world" nation in this day and age.
There's really no excuse for those- The USPS provides an address validation API that's easy to use, accurate, and free:
https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/
When you're literally the final word on what is, and is not, a deliverable address, you don't need a regex. You can just do a database lookup. Presumably they're also leveraging the same address matching technology they use with real mail in that API as well.
I occasionally schedule package pickups for the next business day via the USPS website. No issues - package gets picked up by my mail carrier every single time. I occasionally go on vacation and pause my mail. No problem - all done online and delivered together when I get home. I've changed my address three times in the last decade - all done online and executed flawlessly. My day's mail gets scanned and sent to me digitally so I can decide if I need to go to the mailbox that day. It all just works pretty darn well.