Universal POST*CODE® DataBase

A world postcode database containing the postcodes of 191 member countries.

Use the POST*CODE database to look up, validate, cleanse or customize (by geographical region or country) addresses worldwide.

Shared objectives

  • Your objective: Improve the processing of international letter-post items, postal parcels and financial services.
  • Our objective: Satisfy your address quality requirements.

Tailor-made solutions

Our activities cover the collection, analysis and processing of international postal data with a view to improving the quality of international addressing and postcodes.

We develop tailor-made solutions for the cleansing, validation and standardization of international address files.

Documents

Updated data sets and update description No 2011.4

Territories, country subdivisions and interdependent data sets

A country can be linked to a dependency or to another area/territory of particular geopolitical interest. As a result of these complex relationships, their addressing systems may be identical, similar or different, and their addressing data may converge or diverge.

Product Sheet

The world database of raw postcode data contains all available information on the postal addressing data of the 191 member countries of the UPU.

List of territories, countries subdivisions and interrelated data sets 2011.4

List of data sets and database volume 2011.4

27 October 2011. Sorting by geographical region and by country or territory name.

Licence Documents

Basic contract, general conditions, non-disclosure agreement, exhibits, rates, data use declaration.

Extracts from Universal POST*CODE Database

25 country samples to explore

Description of the structure of folders on CD/FTP in the deliveries

Technical information. Each country or territory has a set of one to five files.

Description of files 2011.4

This document provides technical information on the Universal POST*CODE® Database product. In particular, it describes the format of files and records.