For legal reasons in the United States, Canada, and most other Western Hemisphere countries, the address1 parameter cannot contain a post office box or the equivalent. The system checks for the following and returns an error when detected:
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Any string that starts with
APO,PO,APOB,POB,post office,call box, orgpoboxand is followed by numbers. Street names that start withapoorpoare not detected, e.g., Apollo street, Polar street. -
These elements do not affect the result:
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Leading, trailing, or in-between white-space characters such as space, tab, or enter
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A dot
.between the lettersA,P, andO, e.g.,A.P.OorP.O. -
The case — Validation is case-insensitive.
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To disable this check, SoFi Tech Solutions can set the EAPOB parameter.
All address lines support A–Z, a–z, and Address symbols. We can also enable international characters, according to your use case.