I, too, have been a proud resident of Beverly Hills when the occasion demanded. I’ve also been a resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20500.
To be fair it hasn’t been an issue for a good while - payment gateways and stuff are much more global now
Whoa, it gets better! Right near Blue Ball are towns named Bareville and Fertility!
Then there are Fruitville, Beartown, Leacock and Brownstown, but I assume they don’t talk about those places… :eek:
I couldn’t live in PA, I snigger too much over the Oregon towns of Needy, Drain, Canby, Sisters and Monitor–only funny when you realize the correct pronunciation of “Oregon” is pretty much the same as “organ.” Yes, I am twelve…
Third-rate sites assume a format and refuse anything outside that format (ever tried to enter an Australian phone number into a form that expects a three-digit area code, a three-digit exchange code, and a four-digit line number–and has separate fields for each?)
Second-best sites let you select a country first, then modify all their formats to match that country. (US? Print “Zip Code”. Australia? Print “Postcode”. Canada? Print “Postal Code” or “Code postal” (depending on language setting)).
The very best sites free-form it all and let you enter anything, then do their checking behind the scenes.
You’re trying to get us to send you all our stuff, aren’t you?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that does this correctly for the UK, asking for ‘postcode’, and not asking for ‘city’, dammit, but just for the next line of the address!
Most websites I see ask for zip or ‘postal code’, which I think is primarily intended for Canadians. Still biased towards North America, but at least not just to Americans.
If you must enter a geographically valid zip code but don’t expect to receive anything in the mail, you could pick any old place off of Mapquest. Or you could use the house where Mrs Bunbury used to live next door to some friends of mine when I was growing up: