[Year 12 IT Apps] Data type for postcode

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Fake post office codes? Crikey, now I'll be up all night wondering if the dead letter office has a postoffice code.

http://www.pio.gov.au/making-a-complaint/common-complaint-themes/lost-mail.php

Regards Roland

Roland Gesthuizen | eLearning Leader 
Keysborough College DEECD
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

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On 04/06/2013, at 12:55 PM, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am reliably told that 1964, the U.S. Postal Service granted Smokey
> Bear (the mascot for wildfire prevention) his own ZIP code: 20252. The
> US president also has a personal zip code.
> 
> Perhaps there are also fake postcodes used in movies, in the way that
> US movie phone numbers usually begin with the fake prefix 555?
> 
> Ken
> DoE Tasmania
> 
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>> OK. I'm seriously thinking of compiling this thread into a series of
>> textbooks, starting with: "The Joy of Postal Codes, Volume 1: the Database
>> Storage Issues."
>> 
>> The complete international postal code smorgasbord can be found here...
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
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