[Gllug] OT: Police Web Site

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 02:37:22PM +0000, David Damerell wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 Feb 2011, John G Walker wrote:
> >I got the same message. Then I tried entering my postcode using upper
> >case letters. I had better luck with this.
> 
> So you mean that when you enter a postcode correctly it works and when
> you enter it incorrectly it doesn't. How remarkable!

-1

I would not regard entering a postcode in lower case as incorrect, just as adding
spaces to a phone number would make it incorrect.

At the very least it should have said ''please enter in upper case'' - which is
a transformation so trivial that the web site should have done it in any case.

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