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HM Passport Office's regional office in Durham. Until April 1984, the Passport Office had been part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Following the Rayner reviews, the Passport Office was transferred to the Home Office. In 1991, the service became an executive agency as the United Kingdom Passport Agency (UKPA).
The DH postcode area, also known as the Durham postcode area, [2] is a group of nine postcode districts in north-east England, within five post towns.These cover northern County Durham (including Durham, Chester-le-Street, Consett and Stanley), parts of southern Tyne and Wear (including Houghton-le-Spring) and a small part of southern Northumberland.
The BF postcode area was introduced in 2012 to provide optional postcodes for British Forces Post Office addresses, for consistency with the layout of other UK addresses. It uses the national non-geographic post town " BFPO " and, as of 2012, the postcode district "BF1".
The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode. [1] There are currently 121 geographic postcode areas in use in the UK and a further 3 often combined with these covering the Crown Dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man. [ 2 ]
In January 1959 the Post Office analysed the results of a survey on public attitudes towards the use of postal codes, choosing a town in which to experiment with codes. The envisaged format was a six-character alphanumeric code with three letters designating the geographical area and three numbers to identify the individual address. [ 10 ]
DURHAM (County Durham) DH DH2, DH3 CHESTER LE STREET: County Durham: DH DH4, DH5 HOUGHTON LE SPRING: Tyne and Wear: DH DH8 shared: Consett: County Durham: DH DH8, shared DH9 STANLEY: County Durham: DL: DL1, DL2, DL3, DL98 non-geo [7] [8] Darlington: County Durham: DL DL4 Shildon: County Durham: DL DL5 Newton Aycliffe: County Durham: DL DL6, DL7
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If the address is valid, it is assigned a ZIP+4 code something like this: 12344-5678, where the first five digits are the ZIP code and the trailing four digits are the delivery range. An address with a ZIP+4 code (or nine-digit ZIP code) is considered to be valid. In most cases, this means that the address is deliverable.