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[email protected] · February 6th 10, 11:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(MIG) wrote:

On 6 Feb, 21:43, "Yokel" wrote:
"Clive" wrote in message

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| In message , Chris Tolley
| writes| Clive wrote:

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| I have frequently been refused onto a sight and redirected to
| correct my phone number as it's only 10 digits in total. Normally
| after about two tries I give up, If the software is so sloppy
| then their service is likely too be the same.
|
| ... and there's absolutely no chance that you would have made a
| mistake or typing error on the screen?
|
| No, I go back to the incorrect field which is usually marked with a
| star and it's asking for a proper telephone number.

Is that the same software that refuses to accept any house number
ending in "A" (and there are quite a few) because it thinks you are
living in a flat or maisonette? *Even the Post Office uses this
rubbish software, as I found out when I booked travel insurance from
them. *Argos does as well, resulting in me having to fill in a form at
the counter, not on their pay terminal, when I bought a TV from them.
*My house number ends in "A", not because it is a subdivision of one
house but because it was built on an infill site and the Post Office
did not think it necessary to renumber every house on from us on our
side of *the road. *So software they use does not recognise house
numbers they have actually allocated!

House numbering is the responsibility of the local council, not the Post
office. We have such A numbers in my street, both for the reasons you give.

There is far too much software written without checking or thinking
about whether it will actually work in the real world.

The trouble is the customers of such crap providers get just as frustrated
as you do. We have problems at work as our web site contractor forgot that
the rest of the world doesn't have postcodes in the format we use in this
country.

Living in London, I have trouble with the ones that insist on a
county.

I always put "X". Teach them right for being so stupid.

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Colin Rosenstiel