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Postal Code
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Postal Code
A series of letters and/or numbers identifying the area of a country to which to deliver mail. Most of the world's countries use postal codes of one kind or another because they enable more efficient sorting of mail. The first postal codes were introduced in the Soviet Union in 1932.


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1959: The post code, required in the addressing of mail for mechanical sorting, was first used in Britain in Norwich.
There is a provision known as post code checker, which allows you to enter your post code and find out if the area comes under the UK mobile coverage.
All neighbourhood policing teams have been issued with cycle security kits, consisting of a special marker pen to mark bikes with their owner's post code and ultraviolet lights so that officers can check bikes whilst out on patrol.
 
 
 
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