Re: CHAT: postcodes
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 20, 2002, 17:09 |
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Eamon Graham wrote:
>Here in France, the first two digits refer to the Department
>(something like a county in Anglo-Saxon countries). For example,
>Paris is 75. The remaining digits refer to a location within the
>Department - 75012 is the 12th Arrondissement of Paris.
>
IIRC-- back in the olden days, before postal codes were thought to be
necessary, 75 was the Paris prefix on automobile license plates. Did they
just adapt that system to the mails? Quite logical, if so.
US postal codes are based on relatively large regions; telephone codes on
smaller regions. Needless to say, there is no correlation between the two
systems.
US license plates, which used to exist in wondrous variety, have almost all
gone to the three-letter three-digit model (with variations).
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