Tommy Collison

Last night I got an email from John, who’s gone over to Boston, saying that he’d got his Harvard address. Like his previous one, containing his new phone number. I didn’t pay too much heed to either email because I couldn’t see myself trying to contact him other than on MSN and via e-mail.

When the second email came in, I did notice something cool. A zip code!

When you order things off sites in America, you enter your shipping address, and you select Ireland instead of the default America. Now, the clever sites know that here in Ireland we don’t do things like zip codes, and removes the field, but others aren’t. They think Ireland engages in these things, which we don’t.

And because of that, I usually have to counteract this sillyness by entering a code of 0000. To thwart me, some sites have been taught that 0000 isn’t a valid code, and don’t allow it, forcing me to use something like 1111:

If anyone (especially anyone in Arizona, where my package originated) asks, Limerick’s zip code is 11, right?

But, now, thanks to John’s email, I won’t have to invent anything ever again!

According to American tshirt websites, I’m Tommy Collison of Limerick,Massachusetts. 7502