How do areas get assigned a postcode? Is it alphabetical within an area?
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From a quick Wikipedia search:\n\nThe numbering system appears arbitrary on the map: for example, NW1 is close to central London, but NW2 is a long way out. This is because, within each sector, they were numbered by first assigning the number 1 to the closest district to the centre, and then the rest of the numbers were assigned alphabetically by the name of the district they represented. There is one exception to this rule, the new town of Thamesmead is assigned SE28, created after the current postal district system. Due to its high density, it was deemed that it should be assigned a new postcode rather than staying a part of the lower density SE2 district.\n\nThe London postal districts were created solely to help sort and deliver mail and therefore rarely coincide with the boundaries of London boroughs (and were created before even the older, smaller metropolitan boroughs).
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Probably because you are not entering it correctly, or the rest of the address is not on file. The UK is completely backwards with web forms - I have endless trouble with forms trying to guess the right address.\n\nTry going to the Royal Mail web site and looking up your address, then use it exactly as it is displayed on that site.
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it should start building a new list as you add addresses.\n\nyou might just need to type more than one letter to narrow the list down
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name of street\naddress\nadvertisement
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Go to\nhttp://services.hopewiser.com/cgi-bin/rfu_prox.cgi?POSTCODE=PostCode;FILTER=10;FIND_POSTCODE=Go\n\nAnd enter your postcode, it will tell your nearest clubs and the distance to get there.
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it varies from borough to borough. \n\n\nPut in the address at http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp and it will return the right zipcode.
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Go to yellow pages or whites pages in the internet. Depends if it is business or residential . Where you see: by address, write the adress.   But the same thing you can do if it is a name for residential.
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have a look at the learn direct website! Enter your postcode and go for it, it's free!\nhttp://www.learndirect-advice.co.uk/
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http://www.egyptpost.org\n\nFYI, postal codes are only called "zip codes" in the US.  Everywhere else they are called postal codes.
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The Dutch Wikipedia site about postcodes gives more detailed information and a lot more postcodes with the towns that belong to them. By the way, the province Noord Holland has postcodes starting with 1... and the province Zuid Holland has postcodes starting with 2...\nhttp://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_postcodes_in_Nederland\n\nIt´s still not 100% complete, but much more detailed than the English Wikipedia site.\n\nThere is also a site called http://www.postcode.nl/, where you can fill in a postcode to get the town that belongs to the postcode and vice versa. unfortunately, it´s only in Dutch, but it´s easy to use: just fill in a place name/street name or a postcode in the search box and press enter. Maybe that helps?
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Multimap is quite good, especially in you know the postcodes:\nhttp://www.multimap.com/map/aproute.cgi?input_rt=aproute&startcountry=GB&endcountry=GB
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Use google maps. You can put in the Lon. and Lat and when it brings up the map it will give the street address for it.
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go to www.whitepages.com and do a reverse address search on that street. it should list them in alphabetical order. hope you got a name
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umm...you probably need to use something called a image map and define areas in it. Check the link below for more details.
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Drumhoy Drive, CARRICKFERGUS, BT38 8NN\n\nIf you ever need to find out an address from a postcode in future, please ure the royal mail website at www.royalmail.com\n\nYou have to register to use this service, but its sometimes quite useful.
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A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.\n\nGermany was the world's first country with a postal code system in the early 1960s. The United States followed a couple of years later.\n(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code)\n\nThe US Postal Code (ZIP Code).\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmailus4.htm\n\nLondon Postal Districts\n\nThe first system, of ten sectors identified by letters, was introduced in 1858; the numbered subdivisions were a war-time measure and date from 1917. The 1917 subdivisions remain important, because they form the first part of the two-part modern postcode (so N1 1AA is an address in the old N1 district), and because they continue to be used by Londoners to refer to their districts.\n\nThe London postal districts are organized by sectors, as follows, and then numbered alphabetically within their sectors.\n\n    * In central London, WC and EC (West Central and East Central).\n    * In the rest of inner London, N, NW, SW, SE, W and E.\n    * In parts of outer London the districts are subdivisions of 63 other post towns and were introduced at the same time as the other UK postcodes.\n\n------------------------------\nStill doesn't answer your question. I think it was a committee!
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"Back in the day", street names were often just given based on where the road went.  If the road went to London, it was called London Road.  If the road was the main street in the town, it was called Main Street.\n\nNowadays, property developers normally include street name proposals in the plans they put forward to the local councils for approval and planning permission