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Postal codes used in the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown dependencies are known as postcodes. They are alphanumeric and were adopted nationally between 11 October 1959 and 1974, having been devised by the General Post Office . The system uses alphanumeric codes to designate geographic areas. A full postcode, also known as a "postcode unit", identifies a group of addresses or a major delivery point. It consists of an outward code and inward code. The outward code indicates the area and district, while the inward code specifies the sector and delivery point, typically encompassing about 15 addresses.
A Canadian postal code is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. 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. As of October 2019, there were 876,445 postal codes, using forward sortation areas, from A0A in Newfoundland to Y1A in Yukon.
Postcodes in Australia are used to more efficiently sort and route mail within the Australian postal system. Postcodes in Australia have four digits and are placed at the end of the Australian address, before the country. Postcodes were introduced in Australia in 1967 by the Postmaster-General's Department and are now managed by Australia Post, Australia's national postal service. Postcodes are published in booklets available from post offices or online from the Australia Post website.
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- ↑ Canada Post. "Canada Post - Find a Postal Code" . Retrieved 9 November 2008.
- ↑ "Mobile Apps". Canada Post. Archived from the original on 2011-05-19.
- ↑ Formerly the code for Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec. Urbanised in 2004, now G4T.
- 1 2 Statistics Canada (March 29, 2023). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and forward sortation areas". Statistics Canada. doi:10.25318/9810001901-eng.
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