Postal counties of the United Kingdom
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title:
Postal counties of the United Kingdom
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The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known as former postal counties, were postal subdivisions in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996. The purpose of the postal county – as opposed to any other kind of county – was to aid the sorting of mail by differentiating between like-sounding post towns. Since 1996 this has been done by using the outward code of the postcode instead. For operational reasons, the former postal counties, although broadly based on the counties of the United Kin
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Subdivisions of the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom
date created:
2004-02-14T19:36:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T05:03:58Z
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