U Know that if you try that, they will have Great Britain, and if you try that as well, it's England/Wales/etc.
U Know that if you try that, they will have Great Britain, and if you try that as well, it's England/Wales/etc.
Having just come back from Utah/Colorado area the answer seems to be pick your supplier. Shell seems to behave exactly as you describe but Phillips/66 and 7/11 have no need to enter Zip code and the card works fine at the pump.
Not one location (other than ATMs on my pre paid credit card) in the USA would use my card existing PIN. It was either simply swipe (Phillips/66 gas stations) or swipe and sign (everywhere else). I wonder if the ZIP code thingy is a primitive PIN. (someone stealing a card would not necessarily know the ZIP code of the owner)
Doesn't help if their 'county' records are out of date. Send something to Swansea and all too often you'll have to use West Glamorgan which disappeared 25 years ago.
No, it's never that, it's always England, Ireland, Scotland and then Wales at the very bottom of the shit pile - a conquered nation and never allowed to forget it.
While that is true, it's also true that a large proportion of postal addres ses don't need the county - the PO tell me that my postal address contains just the house number, road, town and post code. I don't need to put in the county - which would result in my case in the fairly redundant pairing of 'Northampton, Northamptonshire'. On the other hand my place of work does ha ve to have 'Towcester, Northamptonshire' in its address, so it is still nec essary to allow for counties, just annoying to have tham as a required item . I think it's still true that the 'county' boundaries as used for setting ad dresses aren't always the same as the administrative ones...
I find that annoying, too.
And even more obvious when the drop-down starts Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, ...
Unless you live in Yorkshire, because it's always nice to boast.
Bill
Don't have one.
Doesn't have a name.
That would be the "post town" rather than any town in the general vicinity.
We have one of those. B-) 5 delivery points along about a mile of road, two of the places you can't see from the road.
There's an app at work I have to use occasionally. Scroll down to United Kingdon - not there. Scroll up to Great Britain - not there. Scroll up to England - not there. Then I remember - in this app, we are called Britain.
And the ones where you have to know your are in EMEA first...
But how many need that county as part of the address?
I was born in Aberdeen. Even before postcodes, never saw its address being written as Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Of course I do realise your house on the hill in the middle of nowhere needs all the help it can get. ;-)
The Post Office still have Middlesex as an address, but that went a long time ago - 1972?
I live in Suffolk, but my Post Town is in Norfolk, and has a Suffolk-based Post code. I should put 'Norfolk' as my County, but since I live in Suffolk, I refuse to, so I don't put any county in my address.
The correct Royal Mail format is to not use any county names at all. However, numerous sub post offices show a "county" name on their receipts etc...
So I am actually abiding by the rules. Darn.
I live in Suffolk, but have a Cambridge post code. (CB)
5 miles away people have an Essex post code. (CO) 10 miles way, they have a Norfolk post code. (NO IIRC) 10 miles in another direction, they have a suffolk one. (IP)
They have to wait for management to come along & very often there is a big delay and hooha.
esses don't need the county - the PO tell me that my postal address contain s just the house number, road, town and post code. I don't need to put in t he county - which would result in my case in the fairly redundant pairing o f 'Northampton, Northamptonshire'. On the other hand my place of work does have to have 'Towcester, Northamptonshire' in its address, so it is still n ecessary to allow for counties, just annoying to have tham as a required it em.
addresses aren't always the same as the administrative ones...
At my last house the postcode was unique to the one house. As was several neighbours.
The very first address I remember writing ended Newcastle-upon-Tyne 4.
So that combined a primitive form of postcode (later became NE4) and no county - that was wayyyyy back, very early 60s.
Mike
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