American Express: your last name is improper
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> I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people’s names in it.
Names you can use: dickshit, bitchfuck, pisshole, gonorrhea
Names you can't use: this person's actual name. "gonorhea" [sic]. And "trust"!?
I've had multiple websites tell me that my address isn't valid, and some delivery companies remove the number after the slash so the delivery driver knows which building, but not which flat.
When it comes to addresses, if they're in the U.S. there is an easy way to validate delivery addresses - the USPS. They offer free access to an API that includes address validation, and thankfully most shipping services now use it. Some services still screw things up, but its less of a problem than it used to be. I notice that the Royal Mail equivalent is paid. Perhaps that's part of the problem, or perhaps the Royal Mail validator fails addresses with slashes in it.
I also noticed that the Royal Mail is a publicly traded company. I'll uh, refrain from commenting on that.
Unfortunately not all. My street "number", like 100,000 other houses near me, includes a letter in the middle. USPS will happily validate it correctly, but there are still websites I encounter from time to time that complain or refuse to work.
Where I am, 100 years ago, if your house wasn't inside a city, it simply didn't have an address. The fire departments got together and created a geographic encoding scheme that would allow them to find a house if they needed to. In the 1960s, the USPS adopted it as official. New homes continue to be issued addresses according to the scheme, even though it is not rural at all - it's inside one of the largest metro areas of the US.
FYI, I went to college in the 90s with a kid that lived in a rural area in a very low population county in Indiana (one stop light in the entire county). His house still had the old rural route addressing (your address was the box where you received mail - potentially miles away - and not a street address as commonly understood https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28c2_021.htm).
You could even omit Auckland as it's implied by the simple 1000-series postcode.
The property boom may have led to subdivisions making a 1337/2 necessary but the vast majority of buildings outside of metro areas are detached, single family properties.
I don't think names are a protected class, right? Regardless it is stupid, but I'm not sure if it on its own can be called anything else than lazy engineering.
Hijabs and turbans are not protected classes either, but religion is.
In this case, one would argue nationality, probably, but I'm not sure what the strength of a lawsuit would be or on what basis.
Kind of a lacuna in the law--I think almost everyone in the country would agree this person has a legit grievance here, but not sure what the exact legal theory would be...
The victim can sue due to damages, but it's still just a name.
I believe there's someone running around with a first or last name of literally "null" who has problems regularly. They should absolutely be able to sue, but there's no way in hell someone is deliberately did that as a result of even neglectful discrimination. It's just poor engineering.
Client side so they get immediate feedback, nice error indicators and etc.
Server side for other/ additional checks.