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For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.
by fourside 9mo ago
For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.
- imzadi 9mo agoYeah, they could reduce confusion by changing "the government" to "the UK government."
- Tom1380 9mo agoIf Americans did the same it would be great
- RIMR 9mo agoGood luck. Americans won't even differentiate Washington State and Washington D.C. Even the AP guidelines say that "Washington" is ubiquitous shorthand for "Washington D.C." and recommends against shortening it to "D.C."
- shermantanktop 9mo agoAmericans do! If you are west of the Rockies, Washington resolves to the west. If you are east, it’s DC, and you have to say “you know, where Nirvana is from.” Don’t get me started on east coast dumdums pronouncing Oregon as “Orry-gone.”
- lazyasciiart 9mo agoThe most hilarious thing is that I learned recently that when they applied to be a state, the people from WA requested to be the state of Columbia. But a Kentucky rep said that would be too easily confused with the District of Columbia, and Congress changed it to Washington.
- GJim 9mo ago> when they applied to be a state, the people from WA Western Australia?
- lazyasciiart 9mo agoYes. Little known fact, it was renamed Washington by Congress.
- deelayman 9mo agoThis is also a problem that exists within countries. My RSS feed is littered with Canadian independent (national) news agencies not defining what municipality article headlines relate to. E.g. "Mayor pushes back against province on xyz issue". Okay, that might be huge news for Timmins Ontario , but maybe BAU for Toronto. Even skimming the lead paragraph doesn't define the city often. *Editting with a point: Perhaps everyone assumes a local audience.
- pierrec 9mo agoAmericans, hm? I see what you did there.
- shermantanktop 9mo agoFine, fine. North Americans.
- gnabgib 9mo agoSo just the three of us up here - Mexico/US/Canada?
- notatoad 9mo agoyour first clue might have been that it does not say "zip code" in either the field label or the error message, it says "postcode".
- MisterTea 9mo agoI doubt most people would bother to think about that detail.
- badc0ffee 9mo agoAustralia and NZ have postcodes, too. If they had made this a .co.uk rather than a .com, there would be no confusion.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoOr the term "pub." In the US it's much more usual to say "bar." Maybe "tavern" but that sounds rather dated to my ear.
- Thews 9mo agoWhen I lived in the PNW people used the word pub more than bar.
- selectodude 9mo agoThat’s because everybody up there thinks that liking soccer makes them English.
- toasterlovin 9mo agoMy sense is that it is an affectation meant to indicate an aspiration to something more than a bar (and its coarse patrons).
- tshaddox 9mo ago"Bar" is certainly the catch-all term in the U.S., but "pub" is also very widely understood to refer to a specific type of bar, especially (but not limited to) bars deliberately styled as Irish or British pubs.
- xrownow 9mo agoAny plans to release the code? Would be nice to allow others to do something similar for their local pubs.
- amouat 9mo agoSeems to be England only. No results for Edinburgh.
- rcbdev 9mo agoSilly me, I entered an Austrian zip code out of principle. Did not expect it to work, though, of course.
- jaffa2 9mo agoSeems to be England only.