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  • DC has no star on the flag. You don't want to sell to them either?

    And, really, what do you care if the postal rates are the same? That's the entire point of limiting international sales, aside from export restrictions.

    • The programmer may, in fact, not care, but his customer/employer has decreed he shall write software to accept orders only from the contiguous 48 states (I'm going to assume that includes DC by default as the seller probably hasn't thought about it), and events have conspired to make that uncomfortably different for the programmer.

      I don't think the seller is making the best decision, either, but the seller is still paying the programmer, so I assume the programmer either does not care or does not feel fre

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

    • "uncomfortably difficult," I mean. Not "uncomfortably different."

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
    • Actually DC is included in the contiguous 48. I feel some irony in that inclusion given the various bits of legislation over the years to try and give the people that live in DC the same level as people in States (some of the gun control issues, etc).
    • "And, really, what do you care if the postal rates are the same? That's the entire point of limiting international sales, aside from export restrictions."

      The rates AREN'T the same. We're not just talking about USPS here, it's also FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc.

      I care because in the real world, shipping products, especially ones that classify as the various levels of hazmat, have different rules and options (and problems) depending on whether that can go ground or air.

      The decisions to "go 48 for now" is a short term
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