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Some postcode areas do not correspond to geographical areas. A number of non-geographic postcode sectors are also contained within geographic postcode areas.

In October 1965, Tony Benn as Postmaster General [13] announced that postal coding was to be extended to the rest of the country in the next few years. [14] The organisation of the Post Office and its letter post operations". The Post Office Letter Post Service: a report on the letter post service of the Post Office in the Head Post Office areas of Glasgow, Belfast and Cardiff and in the numbered London postal districts (PDF). Competition Commission. 1984. pp.19–20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2012 . Retrieved 28 June 2014. The single or pair of letters chosen for postcode areas are generally intended as a mnemonic for the places served. [1] Postcode areas, post towns and postcode districts do not follow political boundaries and usually serve much larger areas than the place names with which they are associated. For example, within the PA postcode area the PA1 and PA78 postcode districts are 140 miles (225km) apart; and the eight postcode areas of the London post town cover only 40% of Greater London. [2] The remainder of its area is covered by sections of twelve adjoining postcode areas: EN, IG, RM, DA, BR, TN, CR, SM, KT, TW, HA and UB. [2] United Kingdom postcode areas [ edit ] Map of postcode areas in the United Kingdom and Crown dependencies, with links to each postcode area Postcode areaGiven that each sector allows for 400 unique postcode combinations, the district has a capacity of 1,600 postcodes. With 425 postcodes already in use, this leaves 1175 units available. The B29 postcode area is located in the Birmingham postcode town region, within the county of West Midlands, and contains a total of 1030 individual postcodes. Girobank's GIR 0AA was the last domestic postcode with a fully alphabetical outward code. That code no longer exists in the Royal Mail's PAF system, but was taken over by the bank's current owners, Santander UK. [21] Adaptation of earlier systems into national system [ edit ] The area of the B6 postcode district is 2.43 square miles which is 6.30 square kilometres or 1,556.28 acres.

The primary settlement in the B1 postcode district is Birmingham, which is located in the county of West Midlands. The most significant Postal Town in this district is also Birmingham. England | 'Snobs' want to slough off postcode". BBC News. 17 January 2003 . Retrieved 4 January 2010.

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departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset; The following regular expression can be used for the purpose of validation and includes postcode formats from Special Cases: The inward code is the part of the postcode after the single space in the middle. It is three characters long. The inward code assists in the delivery of post within a postal district. Examples of inward codes are "0NY", "7GZ", "7HF", or "8JQ". [24] Postcode sector [ edit ] Further information: List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom, List of postcode districts in the United Kingdom, and List of post towns in the United Kingdom There are also significant numbers of discontinued (terminated) codes. Each month some 2,750 postcodes are created and 2,500 terminated. [70] Component