[Year 12 IT Apps] Data type for postcode

Wed Jun 5 15:30:21 EST 2013

Are you sure about that?!!

Laurie Savage
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I believe that we have cleared up any misconceptions and conclusively shown that anything other than text for postcodes is a very poor choice.

In my opinion !!

Andrew Shortell
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On 05/06/2013, at 1:49 AM, Margaret Lawson <margaret.lawson at konstantkaos.net<mailto:margaret.lawson at konstantkaos.net>> wrote:

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

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Roland Gesthuizen<mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
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.php

Regards Roland

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ken price<mailto:kenjprice at gmail.com>
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
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Mark<mailto:mark at vceit.com>
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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Roland Gesthuizen<mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
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.

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Andrew Shortell<mailto:shortell at get2me.net>
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 New England<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England> region. Also in the '0' region are New Jersey<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey> (non-contiguous with the remainder of the '0' area), Puerto Rico<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico>, the US Virgin Islands<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Virgin_Islands> and APO/FPO<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APO/FPO> military addresses for personnel stationed in Europe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe>, Africa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa>, Southwest Asia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holtsville,_New_York> (00501, a ZIP code exclusively for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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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