alt Hacker NewsI definitely agree in principle. But - without doxxing myself - I input my zip and the city is not correct. It’s a very close neighboring suburb (where the boundaries are definitely blurry) but it’s not the city on all the legal documents for my current house.
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Yeah city is not fully a function of zip. ~I think state is though.~* I believe when multiple cities share a zip code USPS uses the larger one. Usually the wrong city will get delivered though, probably not guaranteed.
* correcting myself, some zip codes do cross state lines
Zip code is a very powerful factor from a PII perspective.
https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/index.ht...
Legal address doesn't matter for mail, and all of this stuff is about mail/shipping. This includes billing addresses.
I would have assumed that you knew that. I know people whose ZIP code belongs to a neighboring town (because mail works that way) and it basically becomes their de-facto address.
My brother’s house is in the same boat. Unfortunately, not all ZIP codes exclusively belong to one city.