They pushed a quiet validation change at 9:12 a.m., and my audit screen hasn’t stopped blinking since. Every 40 seconds a red ‘ZIP mismatch’ toast pops for records that match perfectly; I retyped 5 postal codes just to prove the system wrong and logged 27 false flags in the first hour across 2–3 forms. This is squarely in What’s News in Data Entry today. a 3.5% false-positive rate sounds small on a slide, but it becomes real overtime and cranky emails by 5 p.m. If this is the noise at 10k rows, what happens if this scales when the monthly dump hits tomorrow?
Same here - it’s choking on ZIP+4 and any trailing space. Five-digit passes; adding +4 with a dash trips the toast, so I’ve been saving with the 5-digit first, then appending the +4 without the dash, which stops almost all the false flags for now.
I’m seeing it reject ZIP+4 when the dash came from a paste; a few rows had an en dash or a trailing nonbreaking space. Quick fix: paste into a plain text editor first, or just key the nine digits without a dash (e.g., 021101234) and it passes without the toast.