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The letters CP or C.P. are often written in front of the postcode. This is not a country code, but simply an abbreviation for "code postal". Serbia: 1 January 2005 RS: NNNNN Poštanski adresni kod (PAK) Seychelles: SC: no codes Sierra Leone: SL: no codes Sint Maarten: SX: no codes Singapore: 6 March 1950 SG: NN Singapore: 1 July 1979 SG: NNNN ...
Post office sign in Farrer, Australian Capital Territory, showing postcode 2607. A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.
In 2012, the government of Trinidad and Tobago approved the introduction of postal codes starting later that same year. In addition to the postal code implementation the country has embarked on a nationwide address improvement initiative adopting the Universal Postal Union (UPU) S-42 international standard of addressing. The UPU is an arm of ...
Postal codes were adopted in Ghana on 18 October 2017, following the launch of the National Digital Address System. [1] [2] As a joint venture between Ghana Post (with support from the Government of Ghana]) and Vokacom Ltd as GhanaPost GPS, the Digital Address System assigned postal codes and unique addresses to every square in Ghana.
The Postcode Address File (PAF) is a database that contains all known "delivery points" and postcodes in the United Kingdom. The PAF is a collection of over 29 million Royal Mail postal addresses and 1.8 million postcodes . [ 1 ]
The first three digits, the Residue Selection Code, corresponded to an area which can vary in size from one postal district to several postcode areas, although most codes correspond exactly to one postcode area. For example: 406 corresponds to the KA and ML postcode areas; 451 and 452 correspond to the LS postcode area;
Postcode areas shown with former postal counties. This is a list of postcode districts in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies. A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area. All, or part, of one or more postcode districts are grouped into post towns. [1]
RM4SCC (Royal Mail 4-State Customer Code) [1] is the name of the barcode character set based on the Royal Mail 4-State Bar Code symbology created by Royal Mail. The RM4SCC is used for the Royal Mail Cleanmail service. It enables UK postcodes as well as Delivery Point Suffixes (DPSs) to be easily read by a machine at high speed.