Comment by fourside
6 hours ago
For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.
6 hours ago
For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.
your first clue might have been that it does not say "zip code" in either the field label or the error message, it says "postcode".
I think of postal code as a generic, international form of the concept, not tied to a location.
Australia and NZ have postcodes, too.
If they had made this a .co.uk rather than a .com, there would be no confusion.
The site has since changed the content from when I made the comment. It used to say zip code in the label and error.
Or the term "pub." In the US it's much more usual to say "bar." Maybe "tavern" but that sounds rather dated to my ear.
When I lived in the PNW people used the word pub more than bar.
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"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.
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"Pub" is a fairly common term throughout the world. But "pub that needs you" made it pretty obvious that it was about pubs in England.
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I doubt most people would bother to think about that detail.
Silly me, I entered an Austrian zip code out of principle. Did not expect it to work, though, of course.
Seems to be England only. No results for Edinburgh.
Business rates are a devolved matter, Scotland set their own rates.
I see results on both sides of the border here, Wales and England.
Any plans to release the code? Would be nice to allow others to do something similar for their local pubs.
Yeah, they could reduce confusion by changing "the government" to "the UK government."
If Americans did the same it would be great
This 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.
Americans, hm? I see what you did there.
Good 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."