Postcodes in Spain?
The other day at work 2 spanish women came in to buy bed sheets, and decided they didn't like one of them and wanted to exchange for another colour. In Argos we need to take a postcode with every return to try and prevent fraud, and the language barrier caused some problems. I was badly needed on tills but as i was walking over, i asked whether they spoke francais or español at which point they said yes to the spanish and i thought i'd be able to quickly help. But unfortunately the first word they said was incomprehensible to me and i just froze, my mind went blank and said that i was out of my depth before running to the massive que forming at the tills. They ended up going away happy of course! 
i think we must have just put in one of our own postcodes seeing as they didn't have one and they obviously weren't being fraudulent.
In hindsight i think i should have stumbled along and said something along the lines of: "¿ Dónde vives? ¿En Inglaterra o En España?" before trying to explain: "En Inglaterra tienes unos números del caminos y esta nececidad por ____"
Would that have been understandable? Are postcodes used in Spain and how would one go about explaining the need for one?
Thankyou!
2 Answers
Sí por supuesto que tienen códigos postales en España. Por ejemplo : 08038 es el código de la calle Mayor (038) en Barcelona (08). Google te dará los demás código para toda España.
I don´t know about Spain, but in Colombia we don´t use any postcode, so maybe you just gotta ask for the adress. I think is the same in many other countries. =D
