[Year 12 IT Apps] Data type for postcode

Wed Jun 5 10:10:27 EST 2013

Don't forget all the special characters that are valid! Plus sign, parentheses, hyphens and that 1300 BITE MEE could be a phone number!

Natalie Heath (Parade College)

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On 05/06/2013, at 9:37 AM, "Harper, Glenda J" <harper.glenda.j at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Goody! Now telephone numbers? Always text. Leading zero needs to be there, even if spaces are (wrongly) omitted.
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Litsa Tzelepis
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Data type for postcode
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> Hello.
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> 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.
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> Clearly there are stacks of ways this can go – let’s agree to come up with a common sense way of answering a question.
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> Just my 20c worth, Litsa J
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Margaret Lawson
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2013 1:49 AM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Data type for postcode
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> Perhaps we should have another mailing list for post codes, judging by the discussion.
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> 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.
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> :D
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> Margaret
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> 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.
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> http://www.pio.gov.au/making-a-complaint/common-complaint-themes/lost-mail.php
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> Regards Roland
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> 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.
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> Perhaps there are also fake postcodes used in movies, in the way that
> US movie phone numbers usually begin with the fake prefix 555?
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> 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."
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> The complete international postal code smorgasbord can be found here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes
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> 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? 
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> 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.
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> Andrew Shortell
> 3 June 2013 2:20 PM
> also in USA there are ZIP codes that begin with two leading zeros  
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> many of the lowest ZIP codes, which begin with '0', are in the New England region. Also in the '0' region are New Jersey (non-contiguous with the remainder of the '0' area), Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and APO/FPO military addresses for personnel stationed in Europe, Africa, 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 Holtsville,  New York (00501, a ZIP code exclusively for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service center there). 
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> source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_Codes
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> Also they too have postcodes/zip codes that cross state boundaries for post office convenience
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> This has certainly become esoteric and thus fascinating!
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