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That reminds me of American Express. My firstname is Christopher, but it seems parts of their system have a very short length limit. So when they send letters a
by chrisper 10y ago
That reminds me of American Express. My firstname is Christopher, but it seems parts of their system have a very short length limit. So when they send letters and emails, they call me "Christophe". It is spelled correctly on my card, though
- abrowne 10y agoA high school classmate's name was Joseph Longname, which the attendance system displayed as "LONGNAME, Jose".
- cardamomo 10y agoI'm also a Christopher. For the longest time, in the upper right corner of Amazon.com, there was a sign-out link that said, "Not Christ...?"
- kagamine 10y agoI've seen that too, "Welcome Christ..."
- SmellyGeekBoy 10y agoHeh, mine has always just been my first initial. "Welcome, R!". Also when I buy Kindle ebooks the default option is "Send to R's Kindle". I have no idea where this info is stored as the details on my billing / shipping addresses have my correct (full) name.
- kagamine 10y agoWindows had this length limit all the up to and including Win8, my work login which included a 3 letter domain and backslash was too long for Windows, so they cut the last 3 letters of my name off so that I could be logged in. It's made logging in to to some work services difficult, I'm not always sure they are asking for full ID like email address, or the truncated version.
- in_the_sticks 10y ago10 isn't much better if you're using a Microsoft account. My email follows the format "fmlastname@gmail.com" (and is coincidentally the exact same character count). My user directory gets shortened to "fmlas".
- Angostura 10y agoI also have a truncated first name thanks to Virgin Media in the UK. Mind you, the same bozos also limit password length to 8 or 10 characters, so they are generally hopeless.
- raverbashing 10y agoI think that for letters it is to avoid names that overflow name tags So it's better for them to send a mail to LongName LastName than to LongNameSomethingHere where the last name fell outside of the tag And as your card shows, the full name is on the DB
- pluma 10y agoExcept you would expect that it's basic design to account for both very short names ("Li Pho") and reasonably long names ("Christopher Tannenbaum-Greenspan"). If your name tags don't work with slightly longer names, your name tags are broken, not the names. OTOH these days I'm happy when receiving mail from the US if the address wasn't mutilated by converting Unicode to ASCII or using HTML escapes. Especially when ordering things to my company address, which has an ampersand in the company name and an umlaut in the city.
- raverbashing 10y agoYour name tags are a function of the space allocated for the address on a letter (which is printed in bulk) They're doing exactly what you mentioned in the first line, so big names are identifiable on letters with size limits for the address