> Interesting. And how would that work for non-US customers? I know that I > often have to enter the address "as on my card". There is none, just my > name. I have a mastercard, I live in the Netherlands (Europe). We have our > own funny postal code system (as the UK, letters and numbers, but > completely different again). I could try some experiments, but my guess is > nothing is checked, since my card worked uninterrupted last year when I > moved places and both my postal code and my street number changed. And it > took my bank some 2 months to send paperwork to my new address.
>From a U.S. processor perspective, most non-US cards DO NOT support AVS. >From what I've been told American Express is an exception (I don't actually process the cards, I just write the code that processes them). The address isn't "as on the card" instead its "as on the bill". Whoever states "as on the card" has no clue.
