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Message: <blockquote data-quote="njlarsen" data-source="post: 1633688" data-attributes="member: 7427">(rant mode on) Unfortunately, the average postal worker might not know the meaning of Lesser Antilles. The other alternative is to use Commonwealth of Dominica, which is a more complete version of the name for here; most address databases do not allow enough letters to do that.  I have seen envelopes sent from Denmark where someone scratched out Commonwealth and "corrected" it to Republic; I have heard one of my colleagues from the US talk about one visit to the post office there, where the person at the desk started "correcting" the address in front of her. A couple of years ago, I tried to arrange car rental online, but the address field for credit card could not accept Dominica, only DR; several phone calls later, it turned out that their computer system could not be overridden to accept Dominica. (rant mode off):-O I also had to look up where Dominica was on the map when I saw the add for the position I have now :-OCheersNiels</blockquote>