atlas.microsoft.com/search/address/reverse - return united states post office standard

Question

For atlas.microsoft.com/search/address/reverse - in the documentation at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/maps/search/get-search-address-reverse#uri-parameters - it has an example sending a lat/long and returning (in part) - this address: 31 N 2nd St, San Jose CA 95113 - which is US Post office standard.
when I do the same exact thing with my subscription key - I get this: 21 North 2nd Street, San Jose, CA 95113 - which has a different house number but is also not United States post office standard.
How do I get the return information to be in the post office standard format?

thanks

Answer 1

The US postal service has multiple standards, the results do align with this: https://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/Pub28/pub28.pdf You don't have to abbreviate everything in an address, using the full names is acceptable by their standards.

As for the different house number when comparing forward vs reverse geocoding, this is unfortunately a common occurrence in most mapping platforms due to how these services work. In this case, the forward geocode result is highly accurate where as the reverse geocode result is based on an interpolation based on the address range of the road block (i.e. if an address range is from 1 to 100, a point in the middle would return an address number of 50, even if such an address doesn't exist).