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This is completely broken anywhere outside the US. I'm thinking the author knows this, but if he acknowledges it, his entire point about it being easy to implement goes away. For it to work internationally, you'd have to first ask for the country, then individually point each answer to a different postal code database, down to the smallest nation, supposing that such a database is even publicly available for every nation on earth.