10048 is still active, for what it’s worth.
…and don’t even get me started with “MIDDLE INITIAL”
…or “Christian name”. What about us non-Christians, eh? Don’t we deserve to be oppressed by the fell hand of bureaucracy too?
Fortunately, I rarely see that anymore. What I do see is “first name” and “last name”. Fine for us Anglos, maybe. But what with the large number of Asians in this city, many of whom put the family name first, it would make more sense to ask for “personal name” and “family name”. If I ever get to design forms, that’s what I’m pressing for.
Try filling out Vietnamese customs and immigration forms. Mighta changed now, but they used to be famous for things like “Grandfather’s maiden name.”
Sunspace, my solution to this, living in a rather Asian and multi-faith city, is to use the terms FAMILY NAME and PERSONAL NAMES* (some migrants might not understand the term “given name”). It works a treat, it’s not too PC and it’s not too traditional.
- If more than one, and clarification is needed, I’ll ask, “What do your friends call you?” If still not sure, “What name do I use if I want to yell after you that you’ve dropped your keys?”
“12345” works for me. It’s an NYC Zip, I think.
{Oops, just checked and it’s actually Schenectady, New York. Oh well, close enough 
}
The alternative I’ve heard is “the road from Blue Ball to Paradise can go through either Intercourse or Bird-In-Hand”, which I prefer to both of the above.
You left off Boring.
[Beavis and Butthead] Huh huh, you said snigger [/Beavis and Butthead]
At one of my old jobs we had a database of zipcodes, provided from the USPS, for city name validation. I like to enter really small zipcodes, especially when you are asked for a zipcode in person at a local store, because it makes people wonder “can this really be a zipcode?”
e.g.
00501
or
00601
You can verify that those are real zipcodes here: ZIP Code™ Lookup | USPS
That’s where I had to mail my tax return 8 years ago.
Feel free to use my fake information:
Garfield W. Falsename
123 Any Street
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
no1@loopback.edu
Or, if you’re in person and some slack-jawed lackey has to enter your name into the computer, I give the name “Throckmorton Grunthummer Wingergonger”.
I hate it when it asks you your ZIP AND City and State…Really now?
The first zipcode in reverse order is 43210 – it’s for Ohio State University, in Columbus, OH.
Oh, you have no idea how many happy hours I’ve spent with an Oregon road atlas and a phattie… Yes, I did leave off Boring, for all it’s nearly in my back yard, and I also left off Sandy, Aims, Antelope, Yankton, Zig Zag, Wetmore, Union and Unity, Three Lynx, Twelve Mile, Talent, Tongue Point, Top, Ballston, Beaver, Battin, Burns, Amity, Claude, Dilley, Dickey Prairie, Spray, Plush, Nonpareil, Medical Springs, Moody, Ladd, Liberal, Lynch, Johnson City (redundant or recursive?) Grizzly, Green, Gopher, Glide, Granite, Fossil, Friend, and Carver…
And of course, the incomparable Wanker’s Corners!
I love my state… 
I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “first zipcode in reverse order”, but if you mean what I think you mean, then this is incorrect (see my post on page 1 - 00501, for example, is a valid zip code, and the reverse of that, if you ignore leading zeroes, would be 105. Also 20010 is a valid zipcode.)
I don’t see the big deal. Just use a random one.
Especially when you consider the fact that postal codes in Germany have five digits. 
The old post codes (until 1993) had four digits. I guess they just didn’t want to sell to anyone at all.
Oh, alright, maybe I’m misremembering! Either way, it refused to believe my seven-character one.
To be honest I had huge problems when living in the Netherlands. Hardly any website outside of the country would accept our strange postal code consisting of four numbers followed by two letters (my postcode while living there was something like “8501 XJ”). Even some sites in the Netherlands would only accept the numbers.
No, I meant that the digits were in consecutive reverse order, i.e., each digit is one less than the previous one. The only possible cases of that are 43210, 54321, 65432, 76543, 87654 and 98765.
I’ve also had problems with companies that (nice of them) knew that if a business buys certain items from a company in another EU country, no VAT must be applied. They refused to accept my Tax ID Code because “it was in the wrong format” (Spanish tax codes can be a letter followed by 8 numbers or 8 numbers followed by a letter, both are valid but A12345678 and 12345678A are not the same company).
And I’ve had problems like needing to contact a US company which splashed half its webpages with info for their international investors but which could only be contacted from within the US. You see: you could not mail them or email them, it had to be by phone, but the only phone they gave was an 800 number which was set up to not accept calls from abroad (instead of saying “hey, you’ll be paying for the international part”). And of course you could only call 9-5 mountain time, yeehaw…