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- Robert Moon, a postal inspector in Philadelphia, first suggested using a system of codes to refer to general regions in the country in 1944. His idea was accepted and expanded upon by a committee at the USPS, which included additional digits in order to pinpoint specific geographic locales.
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Map of postcode areas in the United Kingdom and Crown dependencies, with links to each postcode area. Postal codes used in the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown dependencies are known as postcodes (originally, postal codes).
Postcodes were introduced at mid-century, but the subdistricts remained and continue to be in use in the 21st century. In 1932 Ukraine was the first country to implement a system of modern-day postal codes, by using an indexing system.
The familiar postcode districts which we now use as part of the full postcode – such as SW1, WC2 or E14 – were drawn up in 1917, based on the unnumbered (e.g. N, NW) districts* formed as long ago as 1856, for reasons indirectly connected to wartime necessity as this illustration shows:
The original 10 districts – EC (Eastern Central), WC (Western Central), and then NW, N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, and W – were contained within a circle of 12 miles’ radius from central London. The public were asked to add the districts’ initials to the end of an address. What did it actually do?
During the late 50's the Post Office conducted research into the attitudes of the general public with regards to using postcodes, and following a positive result they decided to extend postcodes to the remainder of the UK, which lasted at least another decade. In 1967 the addition of 'outward codes' were first seen - initially in Croydon ...
Aug 15, 2009 · In October 1959, the world’s first use of postal address codes to enable mail-sorting by machine began, in Norwich. Croydon followed in 1967. By 1974, every address in Britain had a “postcode”.
Jan 27, 2002 · By 1974, the postcode system covered Britain. The earliest form of postcode was introduced in London in 1857. Sir Rowland Hill, the inventor of the penny post, divided London into districts denoted by compass points, 'N' for north, 'S' for south and so on.
