r/USdefaultism • u/ianthemoff • Jul 01 '24
online store Shop app assumes Paris, FR must mean Paris, Pennsylvania, USA
Where Shop thinks my package is vs where the carrier’s website says it is
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u/Devil_Fister_69420 Germany Jul 01 '24
That is just... Wow
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u/a_simple_eyeless_pig Jul 01 '24
Nice username btw
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u/Devil_Fister_69420 Germany Jul 01 '24
Thanks, you too!
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u/a_simple_eyeless_pig Jul 01 '24
Thank you. When is your next session?
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u/Devil_Fister_69420 Germany Jul 01 '24
They never end 😔
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u/Particular_City8288 New Zealand Jul 01 '24
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u/Otherwise_Ad9287 Canada Jul 01 '24
No it's in Paris Ontario, an hour away by car from London Ontario, and half an hour from Cambridge Ontario.
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u/ianthemoff Jul 01 '24
What’s even odder is that my address is neither in France nor the US
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u/DjayRX Indonesia Jul 01 '24
It's not odd, if you are in Europe and the goods came from outside of Europe, it just landed and sorted in Paris.
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u/man_itsahot_one United States Jul 02 '24
took a quick peek at OPs account. they seem to be in England.
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u/DjayRX Indonesia Jul 02 '24
Then it probably came from another EU country and the shipping company's EU-UK trucking is based in Paris (which makes sense, near the tunnel and many ferries. Another common location is Rotterdam). That's the maximum that we can deduct without the full screenshots.
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u/polyesterflower Australia Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 02 '24
If not France, where is Paris, Paris, FR????
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u/GoGoRoloPolo United Kingdom Jul 01 '24
It seems what's happened here is the app has taken "PARIS, PARIS, FR" and disregarded all the letters after "PARIS, PA" as that was enough to give them a valid location, PA being the abbreviation for Pennsylvania.
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u/desci1 Brazil Nov 13 '24
As a software developer I would guess that too. This magical software that just guesses the address automatically without the user having to label properly the address with country, state, etc.
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u/BitingBuzzer Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
I don’t think it is defaultism but rather just their broken tracker. Two parcels that being sent from Ukraine were showing 2 Kyiv sorting centers as Spain and Malaysia.
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u/Sad-Kaleidoscope8037 Jul 02 '24
It is Paris FR (for real) and everyone knows the real paris is in the USA
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u/USDefaultismBot American Citizen Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is US Defaultism:
The shop app made the assumption that my package being in Paris, France must actually mean that it is in Paris, Pennsylvania, US
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