I'm sure that sometimes happens successfully as you describe, but having worked in ecommerce for a long time, many larger retailers will throw addresses like that either back at the customer until they "fix it" or to a queue where customer service will attempt to "fix it" including by calling you. The carriers (like FedEx etc.) really like standardized addresses. So this could result in delays in getting your order.
If you write "885 Foo St. (blue house)" it will get standardized to "885 Foo St."
If you write "Blue house on Foo St. (eight eight five)" the standardizers will choke and it will be printed as-is.