[CS-FSLUG] International Data - Country codes anyone

[Yama Ploskonka]

Does Russia still place the destination address up left corner and the 
originator (return) right down? (that is, the opposite we do 
elsewhere?).  Any other country does that?

Georges Rodier wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 November 2007 13:40, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
>  > Something new and interesting about my new position here at FIM is the
>  > consideration of International data. I
> ...
>  >
>  > Does anyone have any experience in this sort of thing they'd like to 
> share?
>  >
>  > JSR/
> 
> My least favourite databases used few fields for address data - easy to 
> set up - frustrating to use internationally. 
> 
> Modern word processing programs make it relatively easy to set up rules 
> for displaying or hiding fields in correspondence type documents. So it 
> seems best, for example, to set up USA ZIP code fields with their 
> specifications for numeric contents and a separate field for Canadian 
> Postal codes ( ANA NAN ), e.g., H0H 0H0 ( yes, it's used by Canada Post 
> for mail to Santa ).
> 
> Personally, I would not be inclined to use the telephone country code - 
> Canada and the US may put their postal codes in the same general 
> location but, as noted, the patterns are not at all similar.  Rather, I 
> suggest considering the use of the two character international country 
> codes for Internet addresses. 
> 
> To avoid one possible source of confusion one must be very clear that 
> "ca" is the code for Canada whilst "CA" in a State/Province field is the 
> code for the State of California.
> 
> Another area of interest are the upper case characters used by the 
> European postal services which often are prefixed to their postal city 
> codes, e.g., CH 1860 Aigle, VD, Suisse.  I believe the codes used are 
> the same as for their automobile license plates ( could be wrong here ).
> 
> Ah yes, don't forget to make allowance for language specific spellings - 
> unless it is firmly decided that ALL correspondence will originate 
> within the USA.
> 
> Another advantage of using the two lower-case character codes as a 
> country identifier is that data entry screens and filters could be 
> configured to aid data entry.  In Canada, and I must believe, in the US, 
> address accuracy rates affect postal rates for bulk mailings.
> 
> All in all, fascinating subject and related projects.
> 
> Georges
> 
> 
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