I remember US based sites insisting I provide them a post code for like a decade before most of my country _had_ post codes.
Hah. Post codes are just weird and non standard. I've had times travelling where the point of sale asks me for a zip code after using my non-US card.
I learned from a cashier to type 00000 and it has always worked.
Or some strange concept of state. Well there is some upper divisions, but postal service does absolutely nothing with them and they are never part of any address.
It’s irritating when they make country, region, and city all mandatory. Why yes, I live in the city of Singapore, in the region of Singapore, in the country of Singapore.
Re:Put the zip code first
by benhurmarcel on Monday March 09, 2026 @04:28AM
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I routinely have websites force me to put my street number after the street name, when here it's written before.
I've had them tell me I need 5 digits for my postal code in Norway, which uses 4 digits. I selected Norway in the shipping web form.
Or when they tell me special characters aren't allowed, yet the "special characters" are just letters in the Norwegian alphabet. My address contains ø. These aren't even unicode, they're in the extended 8 bit ascii set. Why are you linting these!?
These happen all the time. Thankfully our postal system recognises this and allows some substitutions (å=aa, ø=oe, æ=ae).