I submitted this ticket:

http://www.satchmoproject.com/trac/ticket/735

Unfortunately usps does not follow international standards..and who
knows when/if they will (i.e. imperial/metric lol etc)

Take a look at my patch as a possible workaround, it probably isn't
the greatest fix but not sure what else you can do.

On Feb 6, 9:22 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I had this problem too.  Perhaps my solution wasn't the best. The Post
> Office expects "United Kingdom (Great Britain)", but the default
> country name in Satchmo is set to "United Kingdom of Great Britain and
> Northern Ireland".  How I solved this was I went to the USPS site and
> looked at their list of "supported" countries and how they are to be
> spelled.  We checked to see if USPS can accept an abbreviation or an
> ISO 2 or 3 letter code or number, but couldn't figure it out.  I just
> changed the name of the country and everything worked.  I wonder what
> other country names will cause the same problem?
>
> On Feb 5, 7:37 pm, joshm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > No problem, I will have a look tonight and if I can get a patch as
> > well...
>
> > - JM
>
> > On Feb 5, 5:31 pm, Chris Moffitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I am pretty sure the issues is that it doesn't like the full country 
> > > name. I
> > > believe it is supposed to use the abbreviation.
>
> > > I haven't looked into it but if you wouldn't mind putting in a ticket, 
> > > that
> > > would be great.
>
> > > -Chris
>
> > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, joshm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > When I ask for a rate request from usps for a UK address I'm getting:
>
> > > > 2009-02-04 21:03:36,798 usps.shipper: INFO     USPS Error: Code
> > > > -2147218046: Invalid Country Name
> > > > SPS Error: Code -2147218046: Invalid Country Name
>
> > > > Here is the XML that was generated through satchmo:
>
> > > > <IntlRateRequest USERID="myid" PASSWORD="mypw">
> > > > <Package ID="products">
> > > > <Pounds>0</Pounds>
> > > > <Ounces>5</Ounces>
> > > > <MailType>Package</MailType>
> > > > <ValueOfContents>26.000000</ValueOfContents>
> > > > <Country>United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland</
> > > > Country>
> > > > </Package>
> > > > </IntlRateRequest>
>
> > > > Does anyone have any input on this or have this working?  Not sure
> > > > where to start here...
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