there you go again. At the time I considered opening an account the costs of operating it were not viable. End of story, now move on because you don’t know the facts or the circumstances involved, and I’m not about to explain to you.
Whilst I totally agree that Americans think we all should follow their formats and even worse price everything in Thailand in (American) dollars when the Thai currency is baht….and there are numerous other counties using dollars, I still believe that these embassies and consulates see the cost of the visa a bit of a cash cow and could easily allow the simple and obvious typos to be corrected.