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I'm encountering this problem in CiviContribute, although I'm not sure if this problem is specific to it.

CiviContribute is requiring that a postal code is given as part of the billing address.  In many countries, this makes no sense at all.

Is it possible to turn this off?  I'd prefer in my case to force the postal code to be present using custom logic, limiting it to just those countries where I actually need it.

Quite a lot of countries don't have them, or don't use them consistently.   Since the Democrats Abroad people operate in a lot of countries, this comes up a fair bit in their applications.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:

In February 2005, 117 of the 190 member countries of the Universal Postal Union had postal code systems. Examples of countries that do not have national systems include Ireland and Panama. Another example is Hong Kong － although Hong Kong has become a special territory of China in 1997, Hong Kong maintains its own long-established postal system and does not use any postal code for domestic mails within Hong Kong. No Chinese postal codes are assigned to Hong Kong.

The buildForm hook sounds feasible for my purposes, and I'll give it a try.  Thanks.