Why is my phone number coming up as not valid (when it is!)?

I'm trying to order prints online, and every time I get to me phone number (which is auto populated from the apple account ID) it tells me it's not a valid number. I'm in the UK, so the number has 6 digits and it is correct. Anyone else had this and what on earth can you do about. I'm going to order from Photobox instead now but it would be good to know for the future as it was convenient ordering from apple (when we could previously on the old machine we had, using Tiger!)

It is a format issue - if you search the forums you can find solutions - basically use only numbers and try different formats until you find one that works - US numbers are formatted aaa-ppp-nnn - not sure how you fit 6 digits into that - is it possible to add more digits?
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