@JonChevreau@mstdn.ca PS unrelated to this but I believe it was you Jon who couldn't subscribe to the Philadelphia Inquirer because you're in a different country? Gottalaff discovered yesterday that if you pay through ApplePay THEY will do what's necessary to go around that block and you can receive it through ApplePay. Gotta will correct me if I have it wrong but that's what I understood
Hope that helps, if it was you who asked. @GottaLaff@mstdn.social
@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social No, it was me who couldn't subscribe.
And then the Inquirer finally figured out I could use Apple Pay to subscribe from Canada.
@JonChevreau@mstdn.ca
@GottaLaff@mstdn.social @Lizette603_23@mastodon.social Neither Laffy nor I could subscribe directly: Tried to 2 or 3 times over a year and the Canadian postal code was always the deal breaker. Any programmer in their circulation department could fix that in a minute with a few keystrokes.
@JonChevreau@mstdn.ca @GottaLaff@mstdn.social @Lizette603_23@mastodon.social I absolutely don't know this for sure, but I think it's pretty likely that Canada Post will successfully deliver, perhaps with a delay, to an address with a missing postal code or one that's completely misformatted, ie, a fake zip code or whatever the web site would accept.
@DaleHagglund@hachyderm.io @JonChevreau@mstdn.ca @GottaLaff@mstdn.social @Lizette603_23@mastodon.social Canada Post is pretty impressive. Had a Canadian sender try to send me something and didnβt put the country. It did quite the trip, to Washington state, then to Western Australia, then finally to Wellington, New Zealand. I guess the system tried the W places. Took an age, but I got the package.
@jackyan@mastodon.social @DaleHagglund@hachyderm.io @GottaLaff@mstdn.social @Lizette603_23@mastodon.social The issue here is not physical delivery, itβs a Philly newspaperβs reluctance to send digital editions to Canadian would-be subscribers by not processing Canadian postal codes.
@JonChevreau@mstdn.ca @jackyan@mastodon.social @GottaLaff@mstdn.social @Lizette603_23@mastodon.social Sorry if I misunderstood, I had the impression that the subscription would have worked except for a problem entering the postal code.
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