Hello, glslegal. Of course Puerto Rico is a part of the US. Unfortunately, too many of our compatriots in the mainland are not aware of this fact and think of us as foreign nation. The proverbial injury being added to insult is that this entirely unwarranted situation makes it difficult and sometimes impossible to conduct business. There are many companies and organizations that get it right, such as Sears, Oxfam America, CARE and Amazon, as well as federal government sites like Social Security, the US Post Office and the IRS, but too many others get it wrong, including PayPal. It's ironic that a company whose stated intention is to promote business is doing just the opposite but, given that rectifying the situation would turn into bigger profits for PayPal, one would hope they will fix it soon. In the meantime, it's up to us to keep reminding them that they are needlessly preventing over three million US citizens from doing business with them. They say money talks, hopefully someone at PayPal is listening.
