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A 1974 postage stamp encouraging people to use the ZIP Code on letters and parcels. A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan [1]) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly [2] ( zipping along) when senders use the ...
Sectional center facility. A destination sectional center facility ( SCF) is a processing and distribution center (P&DC) of the United States Postal Service (USPS) that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes. A sectional center facility routes mail between local post offices and to and from ...
Each cell in this table contains a three-digit ZIP code prefix, the state where that ZIP code prefix is located, and the name of the United States Postal Service (USPS) Sectional Center Facility (SCF) that serves that ZIP code prefix, which may be in a different state. Each SCF may serve more than one three-digit ZIP code prefix.
Postal codes in Mexico are issued by Correos de México, the national postal service.They are of five digits and modelled on the US ZIP Code system. The first two digits identify a state (or part thereof); and assignments are done alphabetically by state name, except for codes in the 01xxx–16xxx range which identify the delegaciones (boroughs) of Mexico City.
^ For mail originating in ZIP Code Areas 006-009 and addressed to addresses in those ZIP Code Areas, the sectional center facility in San Juan, Puerto Rico serves as the NDC. List of international service centers. The United States Postal Service also has 5 international service centers (ISC) for distributing international mail:
ZIP Code Tabulation Area. ZIP Code Tabulation Areas ( ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census and 5 year American Community Survey [1] data sets. This new entity was developed to overcome the ...
NNNNN for PO Boxes. NNNNN-NNNN for home delivery. A complete 13-digit code has 5-digit number representing region, sector, city, and zone; 4-digit X between 2000 and 5999; 4-digit Y between 6000 and 9999. [22] Digits of 5-digit code may represent postal region, sector, branch, section, and block respectively.
The list of Eircode routing key areas in Ireland is a tabulation of the routing key areas used by An Post and other mail delivery services for the purposes of directing mail within Ireland. A routing key area "defines a principal post town" [1] according to An Post. There are currently 139 routing key areas in the country.