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In uk.transport.london message ebf97407-1b18-47b0-8820-1c4ef6dc7169@c1g
2000yqi.googlegroups.com, Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:37:24, John B
posted:

[as a side note, I utterly hate American-designed websites which
insist on you putting a county in the address field... especially the
ones that force you to pick from a list a county that doesn't
exist...]

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Why do you think it is American since county is not a part of United
States (or Canadian) addresses?

In message , at 21:23:05 on
Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Clark F Morris remarked:
[as a side note, I utterly hate American-designed websites which
insist on you putting a county in the address field... especially the
ones that force you to pick from a list a county that doesn't
exist...]

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Why do you think it is American since county is not a part of United
States (or Canadian) addresses?

You can usually tell if a supplier is "American" or is using a
fundamentally "American" ecommerce platform.

It's true that the County isn't part of the address in the USA, but what
happens is that Americans "buy in" the 'expertise' regarding the format
of addresses in other countries. So once you've told it you are in the
UK it switches the fields to what if fondly believes a UK address should
look like.
--
Roland Perry