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The US Postal Service has discussed increasing the zip code to more digits. I've forgotten the new size being discussed.

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Dwight Hogancamp wrote:
Mike,

A lot of countries other than USA have a mixture of Numbers  & letters in
their
postal codes.

As far as I know they are all 10 char or less.

Dwight


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Leading Zeroes in PF


I was wondering why many packages I see uses alpha 10 for the zip code....

On 2/2/06, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That will also make your
application more flexible so that it can handle areas with non-numeric
postal codes (UK, Canada, etc).

david




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