Noted in a recent edition of the Risks Digest, a bloke who lives in Needlepoint Lane and cannot use Amtrak’s automated parcel tracking as the website beleives he is entering a PO Box address instead of a real one.   It seems, according to Amtrak who know about this bug, that the data entry detects the ‘po’ within Needlepoint and treats it as if it is referring to a PO Box.

A simple and silly mistake, I thought bugs like this and indeed prgramming mistakes like this, would not be made these days anymore.