Australia celebrates 50 years of postcodes in 2017. On 1 July
1967 postcodes – or zip codes – were introduced to more efficiently sort mail
and distinguish areas within cities.
All postcodes in Australia have four digits and are placed at the end of
the Australian address. Australian Post, the postal service, manages and issues
postcodes across Australia.
Australian envelopes and postcards often have four square boxes printed
in orange at the bottom right hand side to insert the postcode. These are used
when addressing mail by hand.
Mr John Smith
100 Flushcombe Road
BLACKTOWN NSW 2148
Use of the
Australian postcode system commenced in 1967, implemented by the
Postmaster-General's Department (PMG), now called Australia Post.
Some towns
and suburbs have two postcodes — one for street deliveries and another for post
office (PO) boxes. For example, a street address in the Sydney suburb
Parramatta has the postcode 2150, but mail sent to a PO Box in Parramatta has
the postcode 2124.
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- Similar But Different
in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament
(2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge
(2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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