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County is missing from UK #193

Closed Dreamsorcerer closed 4 years ago

Dreamsorcerer commented 4 years ago

Downstream bug reports: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1624741 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1064656

It seems the county field does not exist when the country is set to the UK. This is a common field on most address forms during checkout.

This should be able to use the region/state field used for other countries, just with the display name changed to County.

sockix commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback.

I looked into this a bit, and according to the Royal Mail the county name is not necessary.

See: https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/81/~/how-to-address-your-mail-%28clear-addressing%29

Cheers!

Dreamsorcerer commented 4 years ago

But, why ignore it, when it is on every checkout form? You are just making the user type it in manually everytime.

For example, go to the checkout at boots.com (a UK company), and enter the postcode "BN1 9HT", and you'll see that there is a county field that is prefilled. Almost every checkout form has this field, and it is frequently written on letters and parcels.

I've successfully had forms fill correctly, by not setting the country to UK, and just entering it in the region field. It already works correctly, you only need to copy the region field to UK (and change the display name).

Dreamsorcerer commented 3 years ago

I've had 2 different websites today fail to autocomplete correctly because the county field was required.

Just because it's not strictly needed doesn't mean there should be no effort to fill it in when requested, this is just a poor user experience.