The postal codes used in the United Kingdom are known as postcodes.[1] They are alphanumeric and were introduced by the Royal Mail over a 15-year period from October 1959 to 1974.
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Postcodes were introduced between 1959 and 1974. Before then, mail was addressed using a postal town and county name. The latter ensured addresses were fairly unambiguous, although there are still some instances of multiple towns in a county having the same name. Postcode areas are determined by distance from sorting offices and do not follow county boundaries at all - in fact, they also cross the boundaries between England, Wales and Scotland.
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If you are referring to the UK "Postcode", this was started by the Royal Mail in 1959 and so just celebrated it's 50th "birthday" in the UK. However, the use of postcode systems is not uniform across the world and as such, each country usually has its own variant.
Partial Post Codes were first introduced in 1959 but the system wasn't fully operational until 1974.
South Australian postcodes begin with the digit 5.
1958
there are exactly 88 postcodes in sydney
Yes, Turkey uses postcodes.
Queensland postcodes commence with a 4.
Postcodes in the United Kingdom was created in 1959.
The Related Link below lists all the postcodes for Victoria.
No, not all postcodes in countries are numeric, some of the codes are alphanumeric.
2000
no
There are thousands of postcodes within Hull. The first half will be HU17See the Related Question.
A Government plan for the introduction of Post Codes in Ireland by Januray 2008 has not happened. There is no alternative implementation date published, no plan has been announced and no budget has been allocated. One viableGeo Postcoding system (PON Codes) has beentrialled as an alternative. It is designed to assistnavigation & logistics sorting and routingin Ireland andone has been testedwith Garmin on their SatNavs.