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| | New Zealand postal addresses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | New Zealand's post code system was introduced in June 2006, and unlike the previous system, is required for all items of mail, whether sent from within the country, or from overseas. |
 | | Post codes were first introduced in New Zealand in 1977, but these were used entirely for pre-sorting large volumes of mail in bulk, similar to the Mailsort system used by Royal Mail in the United Kingdom. |
 | | New Zealand Post did not require individual items of mail to include the post code in the address, as optical character recognition (OCR) enabled automated sorting machines to scan entire addresses, rather than just post codes, as is the case with older machines. |
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