Talk:List of postal codes

message: I can implement the merge from Lists of postal codes to this page (which can be renamed as per discussion below). Support, objections or observations anyone?? Dl2000 23:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree. This is a list of lists, therefore it would be correct to state that we have lists of postal codes. Jussenadv 08:32, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: Might this be moved to List of postal code formats or similar? At the moment it's too similar to Lists of postal codes. sjorford 10:25, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Concur with move to List of postal code formats. Comments, or shows of support/objection? Dl2000 23:45, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agree. Or list of postal code notation schemes. 112.118.149.119 (talk) 15:36, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Move/Rename?

message: I'm reverting to 'none used'.  The Post Office (An Post) uses OCR and says that post codes would be "costly and unnecessary".  Business want them as it would help direct marketing.  So the government said "yes - in 2008".  The opposion parties are skeptial.  If and when its definite - when the Post Office says so, we can revise Wiki.  Until then 'none used' is accurate and safer --ClemMcGann 14:15, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "D6W AANN, D6W ANAA. Note: 'D6W'=the characters D6W"
--Cjjm (talk) 14:34, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Ireland

message: Taiwan listed twice. Drop the first. Use the latter. Better country
name and more accurate contents.
:Fixed Dl2000 01:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taiwan twice 

message: Mention why you use A, and then use 9. OK, 1 looks like I, but still
say why. Or why not Z99ZZ9...
:A couple more options to throw in there for consideration:
:* A (for alpha) / N (for number)  (Canadian postal code promotional material has used "ANA NAN")
:* A (for alpha) / # (for number)  US: #####(-####)  Canada: A#A #A#
:Should also consider parenthesis to show optional characters Dl2000 01:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notation 

message: The bit on 4-digit codes is dubious:A Thessaloniki stamp dealer who advertises in Scott Stamp Monthly has a 5-digit postcode, and the UPU file on Greek addressing only mentions 5-digit codes.Ranma9617 20:36, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greece 

message: It is unclear in some cases what the format is, because of the uses of parentheses, brackets, and [apparently] interspersed comments.  The formats need to be expressed in a consistent way, with an expanded key above (and below?) so that all characters in use are explained.  
I would also appreciate if a regex were provided for each country's postal code format.
:Regex is a very niche way of specifying string formats. It's only used in computing, not in the postal system, and certainly not in the scope of this article. At least not until every man, woman, granny, and grandad knows what to make of a regular expression upon seeing it, it will not be general knowledge, and the article shouldn't assume that it would make it any easier to understand. Wikipedia is for humans, not just computer scientists, and definitely not computers. --BurritoBazooka (talk) 22:08, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  need consistent format and/or explanation 

message: "Bahrain: 999 or 9999. Valid postcodes are 199 to 1299, corresponding with the 12 administrative subdivisions of the kingdom."
If the 12 subdivision correspond are numbered, then wouldn't it be 100 to 1299? This use of "9" to indicate any number, if that's the intention, would seem to be a flaw here. 63.95.64.254 (talk) 22:44, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bahrain 

message: Someone added this source  to suggest that Hong Kong's postal code is 999077. I challenged the reliability of this source and removed the content. The Hong Kong Post Office link clearly states that postal codes are not used in Hong Kong; I judged the cited source to be unreliable because of its incorrect rendering of the names of Hong Kong's districts into English, among other inaccuracies. --Deryck C. 21:46, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hong Kong 

message: Says "no codes", but they seem to have them now;  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlpmjp2 (talk • contribs) 21:55, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kuwait 

message: I added some notes re Saudi Arabia's postal code system and two links.  However I don't know how to make the links show up properly in the reference list.  (They are showing in the note as [3] and [4], but [3] and [4] are other refs, and the new links don't appear in refs part of page).  Note: The second link (http://youbianku.com/files/upu/SAU.pdf) that I added has the undesirable property of coming up with a Print box that the user has to cancel before viewing the page.  I don't know of a fix. Jwpat7 (talk) 21:21, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Saudi Arabia

message: Currently listed as not having a country code. Looking at ISO 3166 (http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm), it should be listed as being under AQ for Antartica https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:AQ they note no sub divisions are reported. Updating as appropriate. LexMitchell (talk) 11:21, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: British Antarctic Territory

message: It would be nice to extend this table to include a postal code order hint, eg L,R,A,B Postal code position : before or after, or below or above the city.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.32.96.40 (talk) 13:24, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Position of postal code 

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thread_title:  External links - addition request 

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message: Namibia has implemented postal codes in 2019. A PDF was released on 9 Jan 2019. Refer to different Wiki
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thread_title:  Namibia postal codes 

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thread_title:  Philippines