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I ship products all over the US. People enter their address info online, and I ship to whatever address they give me.

PayPal, however, thinks it's necessary to edit addresses to suit their needs, and won't let you continue until you give them the address that they think you should have written.

Today's example:



Gee, folks. How much of a difference is there between

JOHN Q. CUSTOMER
9999 ROBIN WOOD DR
FT. WAYNE, IN 46806

and

JOHN Q. CUSTOMER
9999 ROBINWOOD DR
FORT WAYNE, IN 46806

What I want to do, when I get a dialog that looks like this, is to click the checkbox that says:



I mean, the post office is having it's troubles these days, but their people aren't dumb. There was a time when a letter addressed

WOOD
JOHN
MASS

was successfully delivered to a Mr. John Underwood, in Andover, Massachussetts - I think today's postal workers could probably figure out where my package is going, especially if the ZIP Code is correct...

Sheesh! yarg snarl snap yarg

Date: 2009-12-01 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deckardcanine.livejournal.com
Stop making me feel lost! I demand a translation of that Norwegian. Not even my online translation services are helping beyond "you."

Date: 2009-12-01 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bayliss.livejournal.com
Jævla Drittsekk
Fucking bastard

dere drittetende jævlar
you fucking shit eating

Google Translate is what I like to use. :-)
Edited Date: 2009-12-01 10:54 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-12-01 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deckardcanine.livejournal.com
Thank you. (Sounds weird to say that to someone who just said a cursing insult to me.)

Date: 2009-12-02 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ccdesan.livejournal.com
For what it's worth, I'd translate the first one as "Image sack of Image", and the second as "Image-eating Images". Google translate is a statistical translator and not a syntactic one - most of these translations have been added by individuals out there, and while they give you the gist, they are not always either literal nor entirely accurate.

Suffice it to say that I have my issues with PayPal...

Date: 2009-12-02 02:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bayliss.livejournal.com
They weren't directed to you... :)

Just helping you out. :)

:-)

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