Shipping address is way to long looks like AI wrote it

[driftntime]

I messaged buyer to correct address, should I wait then cancel or what  should i do

[wastingtime101]

Which part of it is too long and where is the buyer located (US or international)?

If it's just the street address that's too long, you may be able to split it on 2 lines, like:

12345 eBay Boulevard Unit # 438507q07

to:

12345 eBay Boulevard

Unit # 438507q07

[janet9988]

Your ONLY job is to print and ship a label according to the BUYER instructions.

 Ebay covers you if you ship according to BUYER given address.

[wastingtime101]

If the address is too long @janet9988 the seller cannot generate a label. Often it's as simple as breaking out the street address onto two lines. eBay needs much better address verification at checkout.

All that said, if there's a true problem with the address, and not something easily fixed by using the 2nd address line, the seller can cancel the order with the reason problem with address and have the buyer repurchase with a corrected address. In most cases that hassle is not necessary.

[iamalwaysright]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

Which part of it is too long and where is the buyer located (US or international)?

If it's just the street address that's too long, you may be able to split it on 2 lines, like:

12345 eBay Boulevard Unit # 438507q07

to:

12345 eBay Boulevard

Unit # 438507q07

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Sometimes it can also be a campus or university address where the buyer adds in the name of the university or company, building, hall, floor, department, etc to the address. Sometimes those names can be quite long and can be correctly truncated. There’s also an extra line you can use where the field is labeled “Company Name”. I forget if that’s on eBay too or Pirateship.

There’s also times I’ve used the recipient line for spare characters. I.e. “Homer Simpson c/o Springfield Power Plant” where I would use “Homer Simpson” under first name and “c/o Springfield Power Plant” under last name.

Just as long as it prints out for the carrier to see I don’t care what line it’s on.

[vintage-camerastuff]

Edit the label yourself.  I've done it hundreds of times for both US and international orders.    Just do it and it will all be OK.

[1786davycrockett]

@driftntime 

The address form provided by eBay permits two lines for a street address, so that part of the address can be fitted into both lines.

Some words can also be abbreviated.

Is this an American address, or an international address?

[hartungcards]

I have Homer Simpson on my Blocked Buyers List.

[mamacassidy]

Also, you may want to google it just to make sure.

I recently sent a package to:

W173N5533 Wood Dr.  (I changed the street name for the buyer's privacy)

I had never seen an address like that, so I googled it, and sure enough, it's real. I guess they are using crazy long letter/ number combinations in some of those newly built tract neighborhoods.

[jg.mason]

I had one yesterday. When I first saw the address I thought no way that's going to work. It was to a nursing home. It had the street address the city the state then the name of the home then the floor and room number. I figured if it didn't print it would be easy to fix but it went on two lines no problem.

[sextons-sweet-deals]

google map the address. What does it look like?

[a_c_green]

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@vintage-camerastuff wrote:

Edit the label yourself.  I've done it hundreds of times for both US and international orders.    Just do it and it will all be OK.

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Agreed. Editing the address to make it fit (such as breaking one line into two) is not the same as changing the address to a different destination.

(Why would AI be used to write an address?)

[a_c_green]

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@mamacassidy wrote:

I recently sent a package to:

W173N5533 Wood Dr.  (I changed the street name for the buyer's privacy)

I had never seen an address like that, so I googled it, and sure enough, it's real. I guess they are using crazy long letter/ number combinations in some of those newly built tract neighborhoods.

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Actually it's the opposite: that long alphanumeric (West something-or-other, North whatever) is a rural designation, for locating a delivery point such as a farm on a county road that doesn't have a name or isn't within a standard USPS house-numbered route.

Newly-built tract neighborhoods actually get their streets and lots (and underground utilities, etc.) set up before the houses are ever built, and the streets are named and the lots are numbered (per post office regulations; e.g. even numbers on the north side of the street, odd on the south, each lot number is +4 from its neighbor, etc.) as one of the earliest steps. Our own neighborhood was set up by a developer who was a huge basketball fan, so several of the streets have the last names of basketball players who were famous in the 1990s. (Yes, really. 🙄) As time goes on, fewer people here will realize that, I guess.

[bashort]

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@vintage-camerastuff wrote:

Edit the label yourself.  I've done it hundreds of times for both US and international orders.    Just do it and it will all be OK.

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I had one just yesterday that was 41 characters, I eliminated a colin and it was OK.

[grand-and-glorious-purpose]

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@mamacassidy wrote:

I had never seen an address like that

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Rural or unincorporated farmland