Hell, getting things to understand barrios when I lived in PR.... Yes, this address looks like it has two cities on the address. Nope, that's how it's supposed to be.
Or the hassle of trying to figure out whether a website was gonna list PR under State or Country or just not have it at all. I got really good at modifying web forms with Chrome devtools to inject Puerto Rico into the State drop-downs so I could just get shit shipped.
And for a while I didn't have any way to receive mail at the house I was renting, so I had stuff shipped to work, but they only had a rural box addr, so the addr was "Box 1234....". Anything shipping via UPS/FedEx didn't wanna touch it, so we had an alternate address for each of them (since UPS's system couldn't find one address form and FedEx couldn't find the other) and I'd have to find out who the seller was shipping with.
I got really good at modifying web forms with Chrome devtools to inject Puerto Rico into the State drop-downs so I could just get shit shipped.
Wow. I've never thought of this... I can think of three places I've reached out to in order to have a company manually update my address because of this just in the last two months.
Doesn't always work, but when it does, makes you feel like a hacker!
I always tried it first, and if needed would reach out to the company afterwards.
Had one company call me after tweaking the form in Chrome and ask how I managed to place the order with that address. After playing dumb for a bit, I sheepishly admitted to altering the form. They were upset at first, but after explaining that they used USPS and USPS handled mail to PR just fine and required no export papers, they actually thanked me and updated their site themselves to handle shipping to PR.
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Hell, getting things to understand barrios when I lived in PR.... Yes, this address looks like it has two cities on the address. Nope, that's how it's supposed to be.
Or the hassle of trying to figure out whether a website was gonna list PR under State or Country or just not have it at all. I got really good at modifying web forms with Chrome devtools to inject Puerto Rico into the State drop-downs so I could just get shit shipped.
And for a while I didn't have any way to receive mail at the house I was renting, so I had stuff shipped to work, but they only had a rural box addr, so the addr was "Box 1234....". Anything shipping via UPS/FedEx didn't wanna touch it, so we had an alternate address for each of them (since UPS's system couldn't find one address form and FedEx couldn't find the other) and I'd have to find out who the seller was shipping with.
Wow. I've never thought of this... I can think of three places I've reached out to in order to have a company manually update my address because of this just in the last two months.
Doesn't always work, but when it does, makes you feel like a hacker!
I always tried it first, and if needed would reach out to the company afterwards.
Had one company call me after tweaking the form in Chrome and ask how I managed to place the order with that address. After playing dumb for a bit, I sheepishly admitted to altering the form. They were upset at first, but after explaining that they used USPS and USPS handled mail to PR just fine and required no export papers, they actually thanked me and updated their site themselves to handle shipping to PR.