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  2. Postcodes in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Individual postcodes or postal addresses can be found using Royal Mail's Postcode and Address Finder website, but this is limited to 50 free searches per user per day. Code-Point Open [ edit ] A complete list of all current Great Britain postcodes, known as Code-Point Open, has been made available online (since 1 April 2010) by Ordnance Survey.

  3. List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The list of postcode areas in the United Kingdom is a tabulation of the postcode areas used by Royal Mail for the purposes of directing mail within the United Kingdom. The postcode area is the largest geographical unit used and forms the initial characters of the alphanumeric UK postcode . [1]

  4. List of postcode districts in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area. All, or part, of one or more postcode districts are grouped into post towns. Until 1996, Royal Mail required counties to be included in addresses, except for 110 of the larger post towns.

  5. Postal counties of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Mail ceased to use postal counties as a means of sorting mail following the modernisation of their optical character recognition equipment in 1996. Instead, using postcode defined circulation, the outward code (first half) of the postcode is used to differentiate between like-sounding post towns.

  6. Royal Mail - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distributions Services. It operates the brands Royal Mail (letters and parcels) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). The company used the name Consignia for a brief period in the early 2000s but changed it afterwards.

  7. HP postcode area - Wikipedia

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    The HP postcode area, also known as the Hemel Hempstead postcode area, is a group of twenty-four postcode districts in England, within eleven post towns.These cover north-west Hertfordshire (including Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring) and central Buckinghamshire (including Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Amersham, Chalfont St Giles, Chesham, Great Missenden and Princes Risborough).

  8. Post town - Wikipedia

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    Postcode districts. A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system. [1] Including the correct post town in the address increases the chance of a letter or parcel being delivered on time. Post towns in general originated as the location of delivery offices.

  9. SN postcode area - Wikipedia

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    The SN postcode area, also known as the Swindon postcode area, is a group of eighteen postcode districts in England, within ten post towns.These cover north Wiltshire (including Swindon, Chippenham, Calne, Corsham, Devizes, Malmesbury, Marlborough, Melksham and Pewsey), plus a small part of south-west Oxfordshire (including Faringdon) and a very small part of Gloucestershire.