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Beyond names, foreign addresses are often a major pain to use with US-centric websites. With an overseas address on a US credit card, I've often been unable to
by telchior 5y ago
Beyond names, foreign addresses are often a major pain to use with US-centric websites. With an overseas address on a US credit card, I've often been unable to use it online (sometimes the fields also allow me to enter the necessary information, but don't transmit it to the bank correctly so the payment ends up failing anyway).
- MandieD 5y agoThe worst are government websites (generally state or local) that assume US citizen = US resident. There are about 9 million US citizens who live abroad.
- ajford 5y agoThat drives me insane. At one point I ended up having to argue with many service reps over a toll pass that I was unable to pay. The online payment site wouldn't allow me to access it due to being in the Carribean, in Puerto Rico actually which is still part of the US. I ended up in a loop talking to various CSRs over a few months as each time I called they wouldn't let me pay over the phone as my address was in Puerto Rico, and kept telling me to pay online, which I couldn't do. Kept getting passed from one rep to another, escalated to no effect. Had call-backs from "supervisors". Eventually I was back on the mainland for holidays and managed to call back and get someone to drop the late fees, then paid online.
- Beltalowda 5y agoThis is a problem pretty much everywhere in the entire world, not just the US. A lot of systems are designed with domestic norms for things like addresses, phone numbers, etc. in mind only.