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Hi all, I've been having a chat with Bagi about this problem, and he's explained to me that there's an inherent problem with UK postcodes, in that they use letters aswell as numbers in the 'zipcode', eg. M1 1AA. After much debate, we couldnt find a solution, so I thought I'd throw the idea open to the forum, for any other ideas people may have...

Basically, the Standard Shipping module in Boss Cart JV does not support UK postcodes. As such, one cannot offer different postal rates based on post code, but only based on weight for UK shipments.

Apparently it would be very difficult (perhaps impossible?) to make the Standard Shipping module support UK postcodes because of the Letters in the code - php logical operator can only compare numbers, not letters.

So I wondered, does anyone have any experience of any other shopping cart that does support UK postcodes? And if so, can we learn anything from that to either modify the current Boss Cart JV shipping module, or, add a new module for us poor people in the UK who have alphanumeric postcodes and not numeric. ?!?!?

I'd be interested to hear any ideas people have on this, because, after all, some couriers in the UK actually charge more for shipments to certain remote postcodes, so, it would be essential for anyone selling to UK people to have this facility built-in to their shipping section of their ecommerce enabled site.

Cheers, Jon