What is an example of an English postal code?

Answer 1

Here's one I made up earlier TR99 1YZ That's the easy bit over, it now gets a little complex.

The first of the code is called the outward code used to direct mail from one sorting office to the destination sorting office. All UK postcodes are based on cities, and most use the first two letters of the city, I have used TR which indicates Truro Cornwall other examples PL Plymouth, EX Exeter etc Exceptions include Liverpool which uses just the L and London which uses compass postal addresses SW (South West), NW (North West) etc

So now we know what the TR stands for, now what about the 99 I hear you all cry. 99 is the postal district, to explain it better lets look at a fictitious UK address.

The Supervisor , 10 I Know The Answer Road,

Wrong Again

Truro

England

TR99 1YZ

So in this case 99 stands for the postal district of 'Wrong Again'

The second part of the code 1YZ is called the inward code used to sort the mail into individual delivery rounds

1 is the sector, in the case of the above address it is 'I Know The Answer Road'

YZ is the unit ie 10. Although most units have an average of 15 houses in close proximity

A post code is a number that refers to the area an address finds itself in it makes mail sorting easier as wel as puting an end to mail being misdirect to similarly pelt addresses in different places.

Answer 2

The UK uses Post Codes which are more detailed than US zip codes. A typical UK post code would look something like this: SW16 7TW. This post code would be in London.