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Comment by avalaunch | Hacker News Reader

Cool idea but I couldn't get it to work.

It kept throwing errors saying that I needed to pick a valid zip code or city from the dropdown (despite having done so). I had 45247 and Tokyo Japan as my two selections. It also said "This field is required" with a bubble that pointed off screen with no way to scroll over to whatever the field was.

Using an iPhone 5, ios 7.

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Trying to use Tokyo might be your problem. There is a notice posted at the top of the page saying "Supporting Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States to date" so it looks like your selection shouldn't work.

Hey 67726e, you're right. We're currently showing the best rates for these countries, meaning that we have more than one courier provider for them in our database to allow comparison. All the other countries should work nevertheless simply without "good" (cheap) rates. So it's our bad, apologies!

After entering a valid zip (92128), I had to click the box again to get a listing of valid entries for the zip and select the first one (which had zip/city/state) before it would continue.

The UI should probably auto-select the first one (best match) if user enters the full zip.

I was able to continue and I liked the idea/implementation overall. Nice :)

Hi piptastic, thanks for the feedback. It's on our to do list now! Sorry about the MVP... :)

Arrrghh, that sucks. Which city is 45247? Could you select one?

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