commas separating country/state/region

[imajes]

Hey,

Isn't it proper practice to seperate a region, country with a comma?

so,

New York, NY, USA

rather than:

New York NY USA

[cainlevy]

There's some tension butween the customary addresses people write, and the addresses that the Post Office wishes people would write. It seems that commas are not recommended: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/#usa

[imajes]

interesting. Do you think it's viable to add a comma version for
people who might choose to use the library to display the content on
the web, but keep their libraries consistent? :)

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 13:20, Lance Ivy
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There's some tension butween the customary addresses people write, and the addresses that the Post Office wishes people would write. It seems that commas are not recommended: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/#usa

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[cainlevy]

I think it'd mostly be a lot of detail work maintaining something like human vs mailing formats. And then there'd be dissonance between what you see and what you get.

On the other hand, the USPO will probably always recognize and route addresses with commas, so it's not likely to be a practical problem.

[imajes]

Yeah, i was trying to avoid having to write a formatter to display the
address in the online ordering stuff, and was keen to re-use the snail
formatter… but then people complain when they see region/country etc
run into each other.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 13:33, Lance Ivy
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wrote:

I think it'd mostly be a lot of detail work maintaining something like human vs mailing formats. And then there'd be dissonance between what you see and what you get.

On the other hand, the USPO will probably always recognize and route addresses with commas, so it's not likely to be a practical problem.

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[cainlevy]

Even the USPS is conflicted. On https://www.usps.com/send/addressing-tips.htm it says "Avoid commas, periods, or other punctuation—it helps your mailpiece speed through our processing equipment." but then shows a picture of someone writing "Somewhere, NY".

I think that by default I'd prefer to stick with the official format. If you're interested in starting some kind of informal formatting that defaults back to the official format for undefined countries, then at least people could choose.