[Year 12 IT Apps] Data type for postcode

Wed Jun 5 09:17:45 EST 2013

Hello.

I still think - look at the data provided in the exam - and then decide the
best option.

If it looks like this - 03 555 6789, it's text, like this 035556789 it's a
number.

For a couple of marks, it shouldn't be this complicated.

Clearly there are stacks of ways this can go - let's agree to come up with a
common sense way of answering a question.

Just my 20c worth, Litsa J

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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Data type for postcode

Perhaps we should have another mailing list for post codes, judging by the
discussion.

Given that this will impact on the marking of exams, perhaps we can suggest
that more detail is included into the next study design so that there are
not these discrepancies in interpretation of the study design.

:D

Margaret

 <mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com> Roland Gesthuizen

5 June 2013 12:18 AM

Fake post office codes? Crikey, now I'll be up all night wondering if the
dead letter office has a postoffice code.

http://www.pio.gov.au/making-a-complaint/common-complaint-themes/lost-mail.p
hp

Regards Roland

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 <mailto:kenjprice at gmail.com> ken price

4 June 2013 12:55 PM

I am reliably told that 1964, the U.S. Postal Service granted Smokey
Bear (the mascot for wildfire prevention) his own ZIP code: 20252. The
US president also has a personal zip code.

Perhaps there are also fake postcodes used in movies, in the way that
US movie phone numbers usually begin with the fake prefix 555?

Ken
DoE Tasmania

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 <mailto:mark at vceit.com> Mark

4 June 2013 11:32 AM

OK. I'm seriously thinking of compiling this thread into a series of
textbooks, starting with: "The Joy of Postal Codes, Volume 1: the Database
Storage Issues."

The complete international postal code smorgasbord can be found here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes

Mark

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 <mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com> Roland Gesthuizen

3 June 2013 8:31 PM

Now I am curious .. wondering out aloud if countries insist upon anything
other than traditional alphanumeric characters? 

>From memory in London, the two letters at the end of the postcode numbers
were only used to help divide up the mail for the postal delivery routes.
Nothing special but I may be wrong.

Regards Roland

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 <mailto:shortell at get2me.net> Andrew Shortell

3 June 2013 2:20 PM

also in USA there are ZIP codes that begin with two leading zeros  

Quote: 

many of the lowest ZIP codes, which begin with '0', are in the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England> New England region. Also in the
'0' region are  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey> New Jersey
(non-contiguous with the remainder of the '0' area),
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico> Puerto Rico, the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Virgin_Islands> US Virgin Islands and
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APO/FPO> APO/FPO military addresses for
personnel stationed in  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe> Europe,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa> Africa,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Asia> Southwest Asia and aboard
vessels based in the waters adjoining those lands; APO/FPO addresses are
also used by U.S. diplomatic and consulary facilities. The lowest ZIP code
is in  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holtsville,_New_York> Holtsville, New
York (00501, a ZIP code exclusively for the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Internal_Revenue_Service> U.S. Internal
Revenue Service center there). 

source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_Codes

Also they too have postcodes/zip codes that cross state boundaries for post
office convenience

This has certainly become esoteric and thus fascinating!

Andrew 

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