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In 1983, the U.S. Postal Service introduced an expanded ZIP Code system that it named ZIP+4, often known as "plus-four codes", "add-on codes", or "add-ons". A ZIP+4 Code uses the basic five-digit code plus four additional digits to identify a geographic segment within the five-digit delivery area, such as a city block, a group of apartments, an ...
Known as the ZIP Code with five digits 99999* or the ZIP+4 Code with nine digits 99999-9999* (while the minimum requirement is the first five digits, the U.S. Postal Service encourages everyone to use all nine).
The 925 prefix originally covered only Riverside, California. The surrounding offices were originally under the 923 prefix. The present-day 926 prefix range only covers the southern and coastal portion of Orange County. This includes, Irvine, which originally had only ZIP Code, 92650.
The name of US postal codes, "ZIP Codes", reflects this evolutionary growth from a zone plan to a zone improvement plan, "ZIP". Modern postal codes were first introduced in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in December 1932, [ 4 ] but the system was abandoned in 1939.
The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [ 4 ] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.
Each ZIP code is divided into ZIP+4 codes, just as in the rest of the United States. For example, in the ZIP+4 code 00716-2604, the basic ZIP code 00716 is the east section of the city of Ponce; and within 00716, the suffix 2604 is a section of Aceitillo Street in the Los Caobos neighborhood zip code.
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.
A Canadian postal code ( French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British, Irish and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters.