Addressing knowledge centre

Addressing practices differ essentially from country to country: there are more than 200 address formats in the world, 200 database structures and at least 20 language scripts are officially used to write addresses.

These pratices are complex when dealing with addressing at the international level. Our Addressing Knowledge Centre is designed to answer and clarify your questions. It consists of two parts: General Addressing Issues and Universal Post*Code DataBase-specific FAQs.

 

Universal Post*Code DataBase-specific FAQs

Update February 2013 - Where I can find the list of field lengths/types of the Universal Post*Code DataBase data? etc.

General Addressing Issues

Which countries in the world have/do not have a postcode system?
Is there a standard that a country should follow when it does not adopt a postcode?