# Stick your zip code up your anus. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 1, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579 "2008-11-01T15:58:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/1 "2008-11-01T15:58:56Z")
I hate when sites ask you for your zip. It’s like the creators don’t fathom that someone from beyond the US might want to participate in the site. In that case why be on the \*world wide \*web? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/2 "2008-11-01T16:02:09Z")
No thank you. Fours are pointy. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/3 "2008-11-01T16:07:25Z")
Use 97420, which is Coos Bay, Oregon. I like it because it’s a dope reference–I’m juvenile like that. Win! I use that one for those nosy ass sites that want demographic info–fuck you, web site, I’ll do what I want! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/4 "2008-11-01T16:08:24Z")
I have used 90210 on occasion but I don’t like lying anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/5 "2008-11-01T16:11:57Z")
I hear you, and please may the title be “STICK YOUR RUSTY-BARBED WIRED FUCKING ZIP CODE REPEATEDLY UP AND DOWN YOUR ANUS SIDEWAYS”… ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/6 "2008-11-01T16:12:35Z")
I just like using 5 random numbers. If they have a filter only allowing “legit” zip codes I’ll just try again. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/7 "2008-11-01T16:12:54Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I hate when sites ask you for your zip. It’s like the creators don’t fathom that someone from beyond the US might want to participate in the site. In that case why be on the \*world wide \*web? Don’t you wacky Europeans have some weird alphanumeric postal code or is that just those crazy Canucks? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/8 "2008-11-01T16:15:24Z")
Not here really. In Dublin areas are numbered 1 to 24 but that’s not the whole of the county, just the city. I live in Dublin but have no number. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/9 "2008-11-01T16:21:43Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > Not here really. In Dublin areas are numbered 1 to 24 but that’s not the whole of the county, just the city. I live in Dublin but have no number. Well then, your problem isn’t with websites asking for a zip. It’s with weird cities that offer you none. Come on, Dublin, get with the program! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/10 "2008-11-01T16:23:29Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I live in Dublin but have no number. That’s a coincidence: I have no mouth, but I must scream. It’s an annoying aspect of the stupid America-centrism of some webmasters. It’s easy enough to lie but writing condescending emails is so much more amusing, especially if you mention that while the Internet was invented in America, the Web was invented in Switzerland. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/11 "2008-11-01T16:28:29Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Don’t you wacky Europeans have some weird alphanumeric postal code or is that just those crazy Canucks? Trying to enter anything other than a ZIP code in a ZIP code box is a craps shoot - they’re frequently not set up to accept a) more than 5 characters, b) non-numeric characters, or c) anything that’s not a valid ZIP code. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/12 "2008-11-01T16:28:55Z")
Hey! [Good news](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code#Ireland)! [QUOTE=Wikipedia] Ireland Aside from the Dublin postal districts, Ireland does not have a national post code system. While the national postal service, An Post, has stated that the addressing system and sorting technologies preclude the need for postcodes for mail delivery, it has been suggested that other services (such as ambulances) would benefit from a national system. In 2005, the Minister for Communications announced that postcodes would be introduced by 2008[3], but the project had been shelved pending additional consultation and investigation into the need[4]. However, on February 24, 2008 The Sunday Times reported that the new Minister is finalising the system and hopes to bring the plans to cabinet before the summer of 2008 for introduction in 2009.[5] The proposal was reported as being a six character alphanumeric system with examples given for Galway city as GAL 123 and for Maynooth as MYN 123, where the 123 part would be different for each specific address. It also seems to keep a link to the existing Dublin postal districts with an example given for D4 becoming D04 123. An Post was quoted as saying “it would be at the heart of the introduction”.[5] [/QUOTE] You just might join the rest of us with your own special alphanumeric tag very soon. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/13 "2008-11-01T16:40:53Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Trying to enter anything other than a ZIP code in a ZIP code box is a craps shoot - they’re frequently not set up to accept a) more than 5 characters, b) non-numeric characters, or c) anything that’s not a valid ZIP code. In that case, they really don’t deserve the demographic data they’re trying to collect, do they? Here’s some famous ones, other than 90210: 10036 - Times Square, New York 33139 - South Beach, Miami, FL 60611 - Gold Coast, Chicago, IL ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/14 "2008-11-01T16:48:26Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > It’s an annoying aspect of the stupid America-centrism of some webmasters. It’s not just webmasters. When i entered grad school here in the US, i had to fill out a card with family contact information. Despite the fact that my grad school is a world-renowned institution with hundreds of students and faculty from foreign countries, the computer-readable card could only take US zip codes and phone numbers, or at least numbers in exactly the same format as American ones. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/15 "2008-11-01T17:04:18Z")
I have never come across a site that asked for one, except for those from which I am making a purchase, and then it is part of my mailing address. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/16 "2008-11-01T17:20:23Z")
32765 - **RNATB** ’s house. Pretend you’re a guest. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/17 "2008-11-01T17:36:35Z")
[48169](http://www.cs.tut.fi/~simona/Hell_Frozen_Over.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/18 "2008-11-01T17:36:52Z")
09501 US Fleet Post Office (NY) ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/19 "2008-11-01T17:51:56Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > In that case, they really don’t deserve the demographic data they’re trying to collect, do they? Here’s some famous ones, other than 90210: > > 10036 - Times Square, New York > 33139 - South Beach, Miami, FL > 60611 - Gold Coast, Chicago, IL [20500](http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/), to mess up the demographics further > [@Khadaji](#): > > I have never come across a site that asked for one, except for those from which I am making a purchase, and then it is part of my mailing address. It’s not even just American sites. I failed to make a purchase from a German editor, because their site refused to accept anything other than a six-digit postal code. You’d think _somebody_ would have realised the problem with _that_ one while developing the site! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579/20 "2008-11-01T18:14:02Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I have used 90210 on occasion but I don’t like lying anymore. I thank this show every time I’ve tried to fill up a hire car and pay by card when on holiday in the States. It’s not like the code matches with my French card in anyway so I don’t see why they need it ! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-your-zip-code-up-your-anus/470579.md?page=2)