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| 1493.1 | Not that I know of.. | NEMAIL::HANLY | | Mon Aug 07 1995 14:04 | 13 |
| George,
As far as I know (I have lived and worked in Ireland for over 24 years)
there is no such thing as county abbreviations or postal codes (zip
codes) in Ireland. There might be in the future, but for the time
being, Galway is still Galway (thank God)!
Regards,
Ken Hanly
P.S. There are abbreviations for car number plates, as you know.
Galway's is simply G.
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| 1493.2 | | BELFST::MCCOMB | An SLB from Doire | Thu Aug 10 1995 06:55 | 9 |
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George,
there are post codes in 6/32 of Ireland ie in Northern Ireland/north
east Ireland and they all begin BT eg. BT9 6HH is the office in
Belfast. County abbreviation seems to be a British concept never
actually used here except for maybe Londonderry (depending on your
view ) :*))
Gareth
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| 1493.3 | | TINCUP::AGUE | http://www.usa.net/~ague | Thu Aug 10 1995 10:57 | 3 |
| What does the BT stand for? British Territory?
-- Jim
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| 1493.4 | | BAHTAT::DODD | | Thu Aug 10 1995 12:37 | 13 |
| BT indicates Belfast.
The UK is divided in to about 120 postcodes. These one or two letter
combinations were allocated some years ago 20ish. Major cities use a
single letter, eg B for Birmingham. Then other centres use two letters,
eg LS for Leeds BD for Bradford AL for St Albans.
I assume these combinations were chosen for their likely clarity when
written or spoken and also to reflect the major town/city within it.
HTH
Andrew
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| 1493.5 | | CBHVAX::CBH | Lager Lout | Fri Aug 11 1995 03:29 | 9 |
| The first letter(s) generally indicate the town where the nearest
sorting office is, and the following number reflects the district
number being served by it, ie Bishop's Stortford is CM23, which
means Chelmsford (nearest sorting office), sub district 23 (Bishop's
Stortford). The remainder of the postcode indicates a smaller area
within the sub district, generally, but not always, equating with
a particular street.
Chris.
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| 1493.6 | People in Glass Houses etc etc. | BELFST::MCCOMB | An SLB from Doire | Fri Aug 11 1995 07:10 | 3 |
| re.3
On the same train of thought I presume that the zip code for Hawaii is
AT.
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| 1493.7 | Only in Canada you say... | POLAR::RUSHTON | տ� | Tue Aug 15 1995 12:53 | 23 |
| To carry this thread to a more trivial end...
The postal code format for the UK and Canada are somewhat similar and
very different...hmmmmmm.
In Canada, the format is ANA NAN (AlphabetNumeralAlphabet
NumeralAlphabetNumeral); such as the postal code for the Kanata site
K2K 2A6. Whereas in the UK the format is AAN NAA.
In areas where there is no postal delivery (you must pick up
your mail from the post office), everyone in the area has the same
postal code no matter what their street address; and, the last numeral
in the code is always a '0' (indicating a postal station).
The first letter of the Canadian postal code indicates a geographic
area which was arbitrarily set by using the alphabet for each region as
you move across the country from east to west. Thus, A in Newfoundland
through V in British Columbia.
At Christmas, Canada Post re-activates a special postal code for those
who wish to send letters to Santa Claus. No kidding, it's H0H 0H0!
Pat (K0A 1A0)
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