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A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan [1]) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly [2] ( zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address .
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.
ZIP codes are also part of the typical Philippine address. Metro Manila address formats. For locations within Metro Manila, addresses are written as follows according to the recommended Philpost formats (address formats for Manila are on top while address formats for the rest of Metro Manila are on the bottom): P.O. boxes Mr. Juan dela Cruz
NNNNN for PO Boxes. NNNNN-NNNN for home delivery. A complete 13-digit code has 5-digit number representing region, sector, city, and zone; 4-digit X between 2000 and 5999; 4-digit Y between 6000 and 9999. [22] Digits of 5-digit code may represent postal region, sector, branch, section, and block respectively.
An asterisk (*) indicates that the listed place name is the "default" place name for all addresses in the prefix, that is, that addresses for all ZIP codes beginning with that three-digit prefix will have that place name in the city portion of the address (example: 23219, 23224, and 23294 will all have "Richmond, Virginia" addresses, even if ...
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.
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 . As of August 2021, the Universal Postal Union lists 160 ...
Postal codes in Malaysia, usually referred to as postcodes (Malay: poskod), are five digit numeric.. The first two digits of the postcode denote the state or federal territory (e.g. 42000 Port Klang, Selangor).