Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes

George Bernard Shaw, an Irishman.

tedd wrote:
At 11:13 PM +0100 8/22/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

Not to mention, but of the two major English speaking countries, both America and England have different address standards. All too often an American site seems to think that a postcode is the same thing as a zip code, and then rejects it in a form for being in the wrong format!

Yeah, but that's to be expected.

You Brits get everything wrong -- you drive on the wrong side of the street, you eat with your fork in the wrong hand, and your postal codes are all messed up. :-)

As Churchill once said "We are two peoples separated by a common language."

Cheers,

tedd


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