THANK YOU ROYAL MAIL

[kaberett]

This is a screenshot of the "Fee to Pay" page on the Royal Mail website. Titles are obligatory. They offer six options, which are given (in order) as: Mr, Miss, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Sir.

This is a screenshot of the Contact Us form to which you are directed if you tell them that you have a problem with a Redelivery or paying a fee. Again, title is an obligatory field. It offers ten options, which are given (in order) as: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, Mx, Dr, Lady, Rev, Lord, Sir.

I. CANNOT. EVEN.

Comments

[sorrillia]

...what? Among other things, that seems like odd programming to me: I'm surprised they didn't just have a single list as an object somewhere.

It does seem to me that "titles are obligatory" is more common on UK than US websites: my experience with American ones is that even if they ask for binary gender elsewhere and don't let you refuse, they seem to usually treat title as optional. I'm not sure why this would be different, though, and I've certainly not done any competent sampling.

[pipisafoat]

In my US experience, even not filling in a title doesn't mean you won't get a title anyway. I mean to say, if I sign up with my wallet name (which ends in a million extraneous letters for an "el" sound), I get "Miss", whereas if I sign up with my future wallet name (name changes are expensive), I get "Mr."
and this isn't universal. like. if I'm like, hey, automated newsletter or thing where I am providing my shipping address, then I get as-entered. (and uuuuuusually title isn't required.) but if it's an alumni thing, I get titled. if it's a religious place, I get titled. (if it's my own MOTHER, i get titled. srsly mail will be delivered if you drop the title, and you REALLY don't have to put a title when you make a check out to me; if anything, that confuses people. but she's busy Proving A Point.)

the "why" on this is a big mystery to me!

[kaberett]

you will be pleased to hear I recovered from my slack-jawed amazement sufficient to write them a letter

[untonuggan]

THANK YOU FROM EVERYONE EVER FOR WRITING THEM A LETTER.

CAPSLOCK TOTALLY JUSTIFIED FOR THEIR WTFNESS.

[kaberett]

CAPSLOCK ALWAYS JUSTIFIED

[rmc28]

I'm surprised they didn't just have a single list as an object somewhere.

YOU'D THINK THAT WOULDN'T YOU

Crying into my development standards.

[kaberett]

I CRIED OVER THAT TOO

BETWEEN THEM AND [FUTURE UNIVERSITY] I AM SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING WRITING A SERIES OF VERY SAD E-MAILS TO THE TUNE OF "I AM ONLY A BABY PROGRAMMER AND I DO BETTER DATA ARCHITECTURE THAN THIS, I WILL CHARGE YOU A SMALL FLAT FEE TO FIX IT, FEEL FREE TO KEEP ME ON RETAINER FOR FUTURE USE"