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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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Huw Roberts, of the Royal Mail, said: "We recommend that customers post early and include post codes to speed up delivery.
But when the ECHO contacted four top insurance companies and asked for a quote for post codes in inner city Liverpool, Oxford, Swansea, Wolverhampton and Leeds, figures for Liverpool were highest in almost every case.
`` The Conservative Party is known to have employed a market research agency to identify post codes likely to contain potential Conservative voters.
 
 
 
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