It's reasonable, but it belongs to the era when the world ran on tracks of printed paper.
A useful line for process improvement today - "You should never have to tell the computer something it already knows." That was a Steve Jobs line that got lost somewhere.
FTFA:
> it centers on citizen experience rather than administrative convenience
There is not paper, real or implied, involved in that goal.
And yet we still enter zip code after the rest of the address.
It would still be useful for Germany then