[OSM-talk] Post code areas

[John F. Eldredge]

I don't know if the process is still going on, but a couple of years ago I read about a small Mexican town, just south of the US/Mexico border, that was actually getting its mail through the US Postal Service, as well as all road access being via the USA.  This was in a stretch where the border was along the Rio Grande River.  The river shifted from the channel north of the town to another channel south of town, washing out the road that had led to the Mexican town.  The national border still runs along the old river bed north of town.

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From: Liz
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On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, John Smith wrote:
> I meant about street/town/city/county... since some postcodes are half
> a state in size... but never smaller than a suburb...
>

We also have some Au postcodes which are "whatever is left over", and the link
is that they are serviced from the same main sorting centre. These cross State
boundaries if that is the way the mail is dispatched.

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