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A plan to introduce a postcode system, was first announced on June 6, 2005. [2] This was to assist the Postal Corporation of Jamaica's international partners in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada to sort letters bound for Jamaica, which ended up in Japan or Jamaica in Long Island in the US. [3]
Jamaica currently has no national postal code system, except for Kingston and Lower St. Andrew, which are divided into postal districts numbered 1-20 [13] Before the 2007 suspension, the first two letters of a national post code were always 'JM' (for Jamaica) while the third was for one of the four zones (A-D) into which the island was divided.
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Area codes 876 and 658 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Jamaica.. Having telephone service to the United States as early as 1936, it was not until 1962 that Jamaica had a high-capacity link for dial service to the US network, which was operated as part of the NANP numbering plan area 809. 809 was designated for parts of the Caribbean region in 1958, and ...
In 2011, 75% of DPD Laser in South Africa and 35% of Lenton in Hong Kong. In 2013, 40% of DTDC, the second largest parcel delivery network in India. In 2014, Siódemka, the leading operator in the Polish market. In 2015, GeoPost combined its DPD, Chronopost and Seur brands under one umbrella: DPDgroup. [7]
Jamaica was the first British colony to establish a post office. [1] Gabriel Martin was appointed postmaster on 31 October 1671, shortly after British possession of the island was confirmed. Martin carried mail via posthorse between St. Jago and Passage Fort for several years, then disappeared from the record.
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies.At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean.
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted.