>It should be trivial to ban a certain billing address,
Everything is trivial when you aren't the one who actually has to implement it.
If you ban a billing address: what if someone else moves to that address?
Everything is trivial when you aren't the one who actually has to implement it.
If you ban a billing address: what if someone else moves to that address?
There are any number of ways to represent the exact same address (apt vs. unit vs. suite vs. '#', 5 digit zip vs. 9- digit zip, st. vs. street), and there are cases where the same address serves multiple people (private/virtual mail boxes). A billing address is a loose identifier at best.
I have a couple slightly different addresses. One of which is probably 30+ years old but is still used by the two local telcos and a few local businesses.
We used to run 'zip correct' jobs for large merchants at the service bureau I worked at just out of high school. Just 'correcting' thousands/millions of addresses at a time.
Again, it just isn’t that easy.
PMB 123 456 Main st.
May or may not be the exact same mailbox as:
Suite 123 456 Main st.
My official address is on “XXXX Boxwood Cres”. Not Boxwood Cr., not Boxwood Crescent, not “Boxwood Cres.”
Of course all of those will work for mail, but if I want to transfer the deed, or do anything of legal relevance, the government needs the address to be exactly like the first one.
For every way you can think of trying to standardize it, there is an exception.
Half addresses, letters in addresses, addresses with no number, etc. All this and we haven’t even left the US yet, other countries have their own variety of whacky shit.
Verizon, Comcast, and some local businesses like my propane delivery still use N. Main and I would periodically get scolded when I first moved in pre-GPS because I would give businesses coming to my house my official USPS address which was different from what was still on many maps.
If I get banned as Joe Smith and address X, what if I register my new account as Joseph Smith?