Please enter the five-digit ZIP code

[space-time]

neophyte wrote:
I bet it would have been fixed already if it truly was an "East Coast" problem, but its really just a "New England" problem. If it works in New York, then its acceptable.

NJ is part of New England?

[OWC Jamie]

space-time wrote:
[quote=neophyte]
I bet it would have been fixed already if it truly was an "East Coast" problem, but its really just a "New England" problem. If it works in New York, then its acceptable.

NJ is part of New England? Hell no.
Even west of the Connecticut River is Dutch colony territory.
More likely to read the NYT than the Globe. Heathens.

[neophyte]

space-time wrote:
[quote=neophyte]
I bet it would have been fixed already if it truly was an "East Coast" problem, but its really just a "New England" problem. If it works in New York, then its acceptable.

NJ is part of New England?
No, it's one of the Middle Atlantic States, but it clearly is outside the Zip Code numbering pattern (for example, lower numbers than its northern neighbor New York). So, as an outlier, it doesn't count. :wink:

[Harbourmaster]

I remember my dad telling the story of when he first went to work at McDonell Douglas in the early sixties. One of the engineers in his group of hires was a guy by the name of R.B. Jones, yes that was his given name, just letters for first and middle.

Old R. B. had plenty of experience in dealing with his unusual name situation and was so confident about it that when he was filling out his forms for payroll that he did them just as he always had, it never occurred to him to ask anyone what to do.

First Name: R. (only)
Middle Name: B. (only)
Last Name: Jones

Imagine his surprise upon receiving his first paycheck and finding it made out
Pay to the order of - Ronly Bonly Jones!!!

[Lux Interior]

Your dad was telling an old joke.

[Paul F.]

Friend of mine has a similar name related problem...
His first name is Jim. Not James. Jim.
He goes through life having to correct every "official" person who tries to insist "No, we need your FULL legal name, it's James, right?" "No... my FULL LEGAL FIRST NAME, right here on my birth certificate, is Jim"

Back to the OP;
That is a mind bogglingly stupid web site...
After all, the 5-digit zip code system, and software for it, isn't exactly NEW...
The minimum character limit for names is at least a LITTLE understandable. Having dealt with some School Information Systems, I can say regarding names; someone will always come along with a name that challenges any hard-coded "limit" - short names, long names, names with hyphens, names with apostrope's, names with a capital letter in the middle, or at the end, or whatever.