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Current behavior appears to be to use the address lookup when a contact is saved- no matter which country the address is in. The only address provider, right now, is the USPS, for US addresses.

The behavior I have seen is that addresses from other countries also get sent to the USPS address verification. It appears that the USPS system looks  at the zip code, and sometimes will overwrite some address data with a U.S address data at that zip code.

At the very least, it helps avoid a "USPS lookup failed" notice after saving a contacts location from out of the U.S..

The preferred behavior would be to only invoke the USPS address lookup for US addresses. This patch does just that. It's really trivial, but it's my first foray into Civi patch-writing.

So please check it out, make sure it doesn't break anything else before incorporating.

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-9299