Postal Code

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.City blocks surrounded by streets, some streets with a different 8-digit postal code (suffixes 001 to 899).Faces of a city block and their extension into its interior. Each color is an 8-digit postal code, usually assigned to a side (odd or even numbered) of a street.Faces of a city block and their extension between city blocks. The same colors (polygons) indicate the same postal codes.The postal code assignment can be related to a land lot in the case of special codes assigned to individual land lots (of large receivers). In any other case it is an error to associate the postal code with the whole land lot area: a lot may have no or more than one delivery point. 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. In February 2005, 117 of the 190 member countries of the Universal Postal Union had postal code systems. Although postal codes are usually assigned to geographical areas, special codes are sometimes assigned to individual addresses or to institutions that receive large volumes of mail, such as government agencies and large commercial companies. One example is the French CEDEX system.