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A 1963 U.S. Post Office sign featuring Mr. ZIP A label inside a stamp booklet promoting the ZIP Code A Swingin' Six video used by the post office to promote the ZIP Code. The early history and context of postal codes began with postal district/zone numbers.
The last digit is usually 0, except for postal codes for PO Box number ranges, in which case it is 1. Country code for Finland: "FI". In Åland, the postal code is prefixed with "AX", not "FI". Some postal codes for rural settlements may end with 5, and there are some unique postal codes for large companies and institutions, e.g. 00014 ...
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.
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.
The post codes are sorted by geographical location. Numbers starting with 10-19 are part of Stockholm ; otherwise, the lower numbers are part of the bigger city areas in the south, and increase northwards.
The first digit represents the postal region, and the second the county in the postal region. Together, the first two digits identify a county. The rest of the digits follow this convention: 0xxx to 4xxx for larger cities, including the sectors of Bucharest (a postal code identifies a street address or small group of addresses)
Postal codes in Slovenia (Slovene: poštna številka) are numerical strings which form part of a postal address in Slovenia. The codes consist of four digits written without separator characters, the first digit represents the region and the last three digits represent the individual post office .
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.