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Originally Posted by SystemSkins
Good info... Has anyone got a "Best Practice" ?
I too ship worldwide. There are 6 pages of countries, do I have to check "has states" to every one of them? I don't know which ones do/don't have states.
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Perhaps not a "best Practice" but it seems to be a "good enough" one -
I have yet to have any significant difficulties shipping internationally (from the US) with States/Provinces* enabled only for the US, Canada and Australia.
I check/validate the majority of my international shipment addresses using Address Doctor (
http://www.addressdoctor.com/lookup/default.aspx?lang=en) and/or a variety of Country-specific Postal service postcode validators:
Australia -
http://www1.auspost.com.au/postcodes/
Canada -
http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/advanced-e.asp
Great Britain -
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm
Germany -
http://www.deutschepost.de (browsr speciic - check it out in FF 2.0)
Switzerland -
http://www.swisspost.ch/en/index.htm
are my top five, but I've shipped to a majority of European countries (and some Asian ones as well) without a "state"
*Due to numerous Canadian customers, I change my language variable to that as well.
Hope that helps!