Each country has its own zip code, but some countries rely heavily on zip codes, while others have zip codes that are rarely used in daily life. Today, we introduce the postcodes of the United Kingdom. The role of postcodes in daily life can be seen everywhere in the United Kingdom.
Anyone living in the UK knows that postcodes are used in these areas of the UK. In addition to sending and receiving letters and parcels, it is also related to the public security situation, facilitating file management, government financial expenditures, and national health insurance. For ordinary people, having a zip code makes it easy to check into a hotel and take a taxi home.
As an old capitalist country, UK postcodes started in the 1950s and are also known as Post codes. How was sending and receiving letters in the UK before this?
As early as the 19th century, London divided the city into 10 districts, which were replaced by letters in azimuth order, which is somewhat similar to the current London postcode arrangement. Other large cities in the UK also use this method to divide postcodes, such as Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and so on.
Since the 1950s, Britain has been using machines to sort letters and parcels, and postcodes were introduced to allow machines to read alphanumeric codes and identify information about addresses more quickly.
In 1959, the UK was the first to experiment with postcodes in Norwich, with the first three letters Nor representing Norwich and the last three representing the name of a street. However, the experiment was not very successful. Only three letters were not enough to distinguish different areas of a city. Later, the British Post Office further improved the postal code system on the basis of this experiment, so the postal code we use now was introduced in 1966, and then all areas in the UK All began to be assigned such zip codes, and all were completed in 1974. In this way, even if you spell the name of the road wrong, as long as the zip code and house number are correct, you can still receive your letters and packages.
In the UK, common abbreviations for postcode locations are as follows:
E is for East (East)
SE stands for South East
SW stands for South West
W is for West
NW stands for North West
N stands for North
WC stands for West Central
EC stands for East Central