I'm sure most eBay sellers will have had sales to buyers addresses containing some errors that require googling to make sense of the address, or sometimes require contacting the buyer for address clarity.
In the good old days before the so called awful 'simple' delivery I could correct the errors in my hand written address labels and that was that. Yesterday I got my first sale in the simple delivery era and the buyer's address was crammed onto one line and not spaced out properly. The eBay message came with the usual warning about there being too many characters but it also had an additional warning saying that I have to cancel the sale and refund the buyer because the of address errors. I refunded the buyer and explained the problem.
You might think that instead of putting the responsibility on sellers to cancel orders and inform buyers that they need to correct the mistakes in their address so that a label can be produced eBay systems would reject addresses that are incorrect for label printing.
Judging by how many people have errors in their address information I don't think this will a rare event.
