Search results
Results from the Think 24/7 Content Network
A 1974 postage stamp encouraging people to use the ZIP Code on letters and parcels. A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan[ 1]) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly [ 2] ( zipping along) when senders use the ...
Many post towns are former "county towns" but postcode areas rarely align with the county (or successor authority) area. For example, within the PA postcode area the PA1 and PA78 postcode districts are 140 miles (225 km) apart, and cover 5 local authority areas; and the eight postcode areas of the London post town cover only 40% of Greater ...
The 1993 system has geographic zones on the first (Postleitzonen) and on the second level (Postleitregion), e.g., 1 is North East Germany, and 10 is a zone in the inner city of Berlin. German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits. The green lines mark state borders, which do not always correspond with postal code areas. P.
NNNNN, NNNNN-NNNN. U.S. ZIP codes. ZIP codes 006XX for NW PR, 007XX for SE PR, in which XX designates the town or post office and 009XX for the San Juan Metropolitan Area, in which XX designates the area or borough of San Juan. The last four digits identify an area within the post office.
Postal codes in Mexico are issued by Correos de México, the national postal service.They are of five digits and modelled on the US ZIP Code system. The first two digits identify a state (or part thereof); and assignments are done alphabetically by state name, except for codes in the 01xxx–16xxx range which identify the delegaciones (boroughs) of Mexico City.
Postal codes used for more than one settlement. Unlike other European postal codes the place names related to the postal codes in Poland can be more than one. Postal code 62-262 are valid with 5 different place names: Other examples are: 09-135, 12-250, 16-424, 32-104, 55-300, 62-010, and 98-338.
Postal codes in Panama were introduced in 2007. [1] The postal code consists of four numeric digits. The first two digits represent the province or provincial-level indigenous region. For the provinces, these are the same digits as used in its ISO 3166-2 code. For a complete listing of the country's postal codes, broken down by province and ...
Postal codes were introduced in France in 1964, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. They were updated to use the current 5 digit system in 1972. France uses five-digit numeric postal codes, the first two digits representing the département in which the city is located. The département numbers were assigned alphabetically between 1860 ...