IPhone Contacts displaying some addresses incorrectly?

Just noticed this but with some addresses both my iPhone and iPad are displaying them incorrectly, despite them looking fine on the MacBook.
Many addresses I have for contact are long, not everyone's address fits the one box / one entry option (e.g. street, town, postcode, state etc).
Up until the latest update to 7.1.2 it was working OK, I think. At least it was working well earlier this year, quite when this bug developed I don't know.
As an example, in some addresses, because they are so long I have to type in 'Street'
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
This then displays correctly on the Mac as
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Town
Postcode
State (or whatever)
Country
However, on the iPhone and iPad it displays as
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 1
Town
Postcode
State
Country
If I delete Line 1 from the address it then becomes
Line 3
Line 4
Line 2
Town
Postcode
State
Country
The only way I can get the address to display correctly on the iPhone/iPad is by typing:
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 1
Town
Postcode
State
Country
Which then of course screws the display up on the Mac.
Anyone else encountered this or a fix? As with any updates of late it seems 1 step forward, 2 back.
I've already submitted a bug report to Apple.

I thought I was having this same problem. But the addresses only seemed to be missing, but just were not showing.
Contacts that have both "on my Mac" and iCloud cards were showing no addresses on my iPhone. When I deleted the "on my Mac" card, the addresses appeared on my phone.

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