For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.
Seems to be England only. No results for Edinburgh.
Find a pub that needs you
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#42The nearest "absolutely fucked" pub to me hasn't existed since 2008. I'd say they have bigger problems than a rates increase.
They do acknowledge this on the site
> Based on VOA data (Nov 2025) which is often inaccurate. Many pubs have also closed since then.
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#43what is a "rateable value" here?
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#44I like how the status values could be used as labels of economic wellbeing for people, too: Somehow Fine Feeling It Struggling Fucked Absolutely Fucked
Stealing this for error logging levels
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#46Interest in context on "government pub rates". New tax scheme?
Pubs are dying. Have been for years. Many deaths were postponed because their taxes were reduced due to Covid. Those taxes are now returning to normal levels. This will result in a glut of deaths, as pubs that were just hanging on go under. The policy question is, basically, do we want to subsidize pubs because they're part of our national culture, even though we don't use them nearly as much as we used to?
The government has decided that they know what’s good for you better for you than you do. So they tax alcohol at incredibly high rates.
Without this more pubs could exist. So I don’t think it’s a case of subsidising as much as removing the disincentive.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
your first clue might have been that it does not say "zip code" in either the field label or the error message, it says "postcode".
Or the term "pub." In the US it's much more usual to say "bar." Maybe "tavern" but that sounds rather dated to my ear.
"Bar" is certainly the catch-all term in the U.S., but "pub" is also very widely understood to refer to a specific type of bar, especially (but not limited to) bars deliberately styled as Irish or British pubs.
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#48Re: Find a pub that needs you
#49Would be much more helpful if it indicated literally anywhere on the homepage that this was specific to the UK.
Being a .com as opposed to a .co.uk, you can't even tell from the domain.
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#50Interest in context on "government pub rates". New tax scheme?
Pubs are dying. Have been for years. Many deaths were postponed because their taxes were reduced due to Covid. Those taxes are now returning to normal levels. This will result in a glut of deaths, as pubs that were just hanging on go under. The policy question is, basically, do we want to subsidize pubs because they're part of our national culture, even though we don't use them nearly as much as we used to?
Lower taxes is not subsidising a business.