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  Canada Postal Code | Population | Dwelling | Elevation | Longitude Latitude | Timezone | Postal Code | Area Code
The two-letter abbreviation for the province to that Postal Code.
The flag to determine the Postal Code is in a City area.
The average elevation of Postal Code in meter.
www.zipcodeworld.com /postalcodegold.htm   (616 words)

  
 Code postal recherche de code postal-ville - SEEK.fr
Code postal recherche de code postal-ville - SEEK.fr
Vous allez pouvoir retrouver le nom d'une ville grace à son code postal et vice versa.
Il vous suffit d'indiquer les premiers caractères du code postal et/ou le début du nom de la ville.
www.seek.fr /codepostal.php   (85 words)

  
  Code Postal France : Code Postal des Communes, Villes et départements de France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
En France, il existe un code postal pour chaque commune ayant un bureau distributeur.
Les deux premiers chiffres du code postal indiquent le département de la ville.
Quelques grandes villes françaises ont plusieurs codes postaux (Strasbourg, Paris, Marseille et Lyon).
www.code-postal-france.com   (271 words)

  
  Postal code Information
A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.
Postal services often have their own distinctive formats and placement rules for postal codes (service areas, as a rule, are defined by national borders).
Between 1990 and 1993 the old 4 digit postal codes in the former West Germany were prefixed with the letter "W", and postal codes in the former East, with "O" (for "Ost" or "East" in German).
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Postal_code   (1253 words)

  
  Postal code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.
Postal services often have their own distinctive formats and placement rules for postal codes (service areas, as a rule, are defined by national borders).
Between 1990 and 1993, postal codes in the former West Germany were prefixed with the letter "W", and postal codes in the former East, with "O" (for "Ost" or "East" in German).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postal_code   (875 words)

  
 Canadian postal code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian postal codes are in the format of ANA NAN, where A is a letter of the alphabet, and N is a digit, with a required space separating the third and fourth characters.
Postal zones were used in Canada as early as 1925, with the city of Toronto being the first city to receive such a system for sorting mail by destination.
Canada Post first implemented the new postal code system on a trial basis at the municipal level in Ottawa beginning on April 1, 1971, finally advancing to a provincial-level trial of the system in Manitoba, and then in turn, gradually rolling out the system to the rest of the country from 1972 to 1974.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_postal_code   (1981 words)

  
 Postal code - Gurupedia
Every postal service (usually having their service area defined by national borders) has a different format and placement for the postal code.
Though usually postal codes are assigned to geographical areas, sometimes this is not the case: special codes may be assigned to institutions with large volumes of post, such as government agencies and large commercial companies.
In the Åland Islands, the postal code is prefixed with "AX", not "FIN".
www.gurupedia.com /p/po/postal_code.htm   (951 words)

  
 Postal code   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In most English-speaking the postal code goes after the name the city or town whereas in most countries it goes before it and is prefixed with a country code.
Though usually postal codes are assigned to areas sometimes this is not the case: codes may be assigned to institutions with volumes of post such as government agencies large commercial companies.
In the Åland Islands the postal code is prefixed with not "FIN".
www.freeglossary.com /Post_code   (1145 words)

  
 Format of the Canadian Postal Code
The postal code is a six-character alpha-numeric code in the format "ANA NAN", where "A" represents an alphabetic character and "N" represents a numeric character.
For urban postal codes, the third character of the FSA segment (V3H) in conjunction with the first two characters, describes an exact area of a city or town or other geographic area.
The postal code is placed on the same line as the municipality and the province and is separated from the province by two spaces.
www.infinitegravity.ca /postalcodeformat.htm   (493 words)

  
 Postal code
A postal code is a series of letters and numbers appended to an postal address[?] for the purpose of sorting mail.
Every nation has a different format and placement for the postal code.
The first three digits represent a postal zone (for example, 100NN, 101NN and 102NN represent Manhattan in New York, New York).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Post_code.html   (223 words)

  
 Postal code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The vast majority of the world's national postal services have postal code systems.
Postal services often have their own distinctive formats and placement rules for postal codes.
(Service areas, as a rule, are defined by national borders.) In most English-speaking countries, the postal code goes after the name of the city or town, whereas in most continental European countries it goes before it and is sometimes prefixed with a country code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).
www.selma.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Postal_code   (425 words)

  
 Postal ZIP Codes 5 or 9 digit, product comparison
Pro-Zipcode Deluxe can have multiple cities per ZIP Code (when ZIP Codes cross city limits) and is primarily used in Order Entry applications where you key in a ZIP Code to find the correct city and state.
Canadian postal codes are undergoing some major changes, so each version usually has thousands of changes.
Mexican postal codes also change, but sometimes they don't make the changes available to us more than once a year.
www.postal-zip-codes.com /zipcodefaqs.htm   (653 words)

  
 The Global Postal Code System
If the NAC represents an area with several houses, the Global Postal Code of each house in the area is the NAC plus a locally defined third character string which people can define by themselves using a family name, a location name or a name of their choice.
The writing convention of the Global Postal Code on a letter is to write the Global Postal Code on an extra line at the bottom of the current address and domestic postal codes no matter what kind of language and address order are used.
The code can be used instead of the domestic postal code to save costs in revising and publishing postal code books and postal zone atlases periodically.
www.nacgeo.com /nacsite/documents/postal.asp   (1588 words)

  
 Civilization.ca - A Chronology of Canadian Postal History
Ottawa was chosen for the pilot coding, and was the first city in Canada to be coded, on 1 April 1971.
The British postal code, which is five to seven characters, is closer to our own, but the comparison stops there, for the numerals and letters in that system are not always in the same order.
The union movement attempted to persuade citizens and business people to refrain from using the postal code until postal workers had received their fair share of the profits generated by use of this new technology.
www.civilization.ca /cpm/chrono/ch1971ae.html   (654 words)

  
 atlas guide
Postal codes beginning with "A" are in Newfoundland, "B" in Nova Scotia, "M" in Toronto, etc..
The second character of the FSA indicates whether the postal code is located in an urban or rural area.
The boundaries of a rural FSA are shaped by the geographic position of the scattered in it rural communities with identical first 3 characters of their postal codes.
www.datamap.org /atlasguide.htm   (1248 words)

  
 postal code
A postal code is a series of letters and numbers added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail.
The first letter of the postal code indicates which part of the country it belongs to.
In urban areas, each postal code is only assigned a few city blocks of houses or sometimes only one apartment or office building.
educ.queensu.ca /~fmc/may2004/postal.html   (283 words)

  
 Saaropean: Postal Code Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The ranges for the codes used with P.O. boxes reflect state/territory boundaries as well, but they are not identical with the code ranges for private addresses.
If the third one is 0 or 1 and the code stands for a city with more than about ten postal codes, the address is downtown.
These postal codes are used all over the United Kingdom as well as the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
www.saaropean.net /countries/postal.html   (895 words)

  
 Canadian Postal Codes
On occasion, as some rural localities grow and expand, their postal codes are changed to reflect that they have "graduated" from being considered rural to urban.
The process of converting an area from "rural" to "urban" postal codes has a formal name: "urbanization." This is, of course, an extremely specific use of the word as compared to the general sense.
When comparing the roles of U.S. ZIP codes and Canadian postal codes, it's important to remember that there are 7.2 million possible CPCs as compared with 100,000 possible ZIP codes, although in each case many "possible" codes are unavailable because of state/province boundaries or assignment customs.
www.columbia.edu /kermit/postal-ca.html   (1131 words)

  
 Postal code : Post code   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A postal code is a series of letters and numbers appended to an postal address[?] for the purpose of sorting mail.
Every nation has a different format and placement for the postal code.
If any were sent one way they were not of Prosper; and if one mentioned his name, Raoul shut his mouth and hatred like this unhealed, was a blot on the parish; it was a shame, Christmas--the cure made up his mind that he would put forth one to Raoul Vaillantcoeur to make the reconciliation.
www.termsdefined.net /po/post-code.html   (423 words)

  
 How to Display Postal Code Centers in Microsoft Map
The valid postal code formats for each nation are as follows.
Postal codes must be five digits and formatted in the five-digit ZIP Code format to be considered as valid geographic data.
If the postal code feature is missing, click Add, and select the name of the postal code feature for the country being used.
support.microsoft.com /?kbid=192609   (747 words)

  
 Postal code conversion file (Statistics Canada)
Even so, the results of manual coding would tend to be less accurate (particularly in urban areas), and they could inadvertently introduce systematic bias (especially in rural areas).
Consists of a subset of 'best' current postal code with enumeration area record matches; one record per postal code, with codes for all higher geographic areas of which the enumeration area is part.
Provides a link between the postal code and the federal riding in which it is located.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /datalib/codebooks/cstdli/pccf.htm   (430 words)

  
 ZIP Code Specialists - GreatData.com - Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
There are about 58,000 records in the file (there are about 30,000 unique postal codes, but one code can cover multiple towns or colonies).
The base product includes the postal code, state abbreviation, city, and an optional colony name (used in the main cities).
The Mexican postal code is a 5-digit integer, similar to the U.S. ZIP Code.
www.postal-zip-codes.com /mexicanpostal.htm   (206 words)

  
 Postal Code Lookup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
CLIFF will not attempt to do a postal code lookup until it has the City and Province which is the minimal information required by Canada Post.
If more than one postal code is found for the city and province, then CLIFF will use the other address information to refine the search.
In the Postal Code Lookup window, CLIFF displays the address as you entered it and how it should be formatted to meet Canada Post guidelines.
www.clifftracking.com /WebHelp3/cliff/postal_c.htm   (518 words)

  
 Postal Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The 6-digit postal code is made up of the sector code and the delivery point.
The postal codes for private residential, commercial and industrial houses and buildings are assigned based on the alphabetical sequence of the street names in each sector.
This means that the codes for a particular postal sector have been assigned first to houses and buildings located along street names beginning with 'A, followed by 'B' and so on.
members.fortunecity.com /skizos/portfolio/singpost/postal_svc.htm   (266 words)

  
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The address and postal code spatial locations were compared on a map to determine visually how closely the postal code represented the address.
The distance between each of the address and postal code location pairs was then determined.
Singapore postal codes were changed from 4 to 6 digits in 1995.
www.lycos.com /info/postal-code.html   (466 words)

  
 PostalCodeWorld Mexico Postal Code Web Service | Postal Code Location | web services, wsdl, web services UDDI, xml ...
The PostalCodeWorld Mexico Postal Code Web Service is a hosted, programmable XML Web Service that provides you geographical and other important information in Mexico through Postal Code search.
This XML web service is used under authorized license to ZIPCodeWorld.com, the global leader in postal code service industry.
The abbreviation of the state to that Postal Code.
www.fraudlabs.com /postalcodeworldMexico.aspx   (269 words)

  
 Free Postal Code Search
The subscription provides Canada postal code, city name, province name, phone area code, timezone, daylight saving flag, latitude, longitude, population, total dwellings, elevation and street name in Canada.
The Canadian postal code is a six-character alpha-numeric code in the format "ANA NAN", where "A" represents an alphabetic character and "N" represents a numeric character.
A postal code is made up of two segments: "Forward Sortation Area" (FSA) and "Local Delivery Unit" (LDU).
www.postalcodedownload.com   (91 words)

  
 Event Me - global postal code sources and downloads
Postal codes offer one of the most flexible ways for marketers to define geographic regions for their target audience.
Unfortunately, postal code data is very difficult to find for some countries, and alternatives for geographic targeting are not very practical.
For some countries ("all other countries"), we are not using postal code data at all and offer a list of metropolitan areas instead.
www.eventme.com /pc/PostalCodeHelp.aspx   (810 words)

  
 FRANK'S COMPULSIVE GUIDE TO POSTAL ADDRESSES
ISO 3166-1 codes to the country list in Index; these are the familiar top-level Internet domains for each country (in most cases), and they are also used on international mail containers, machine-readable passports, and in national currency identifiers.
Postal codes, in countries that have them, are usually numeric, sometimes containing a space or a hyphen.
Postal zones have been superseded by 4-digit postal codes, but might still be seen occasionally.
www.columbia.edu /kermit/postal.html   (11570 words)

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