Administration of Geographical & Postal Coding. January 2007

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1 January 2007

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3 5 6 Caspian Sea Post Codes in Iran 7 Persian Gulf Oman Sea

4 Outlines Post Code System Implemented activities 5 digits Post code System Implementing activities 10 digits Post code System Challenges & problems Suggestions January 2007

5 Post code system The challenges of post administrations Post code creation Forwarding & delivery code Post code goals Post code of some countries January 2007

6 Post code system More than one billion items accept and deliver in a day through the world. The challenges Of post administrations Undeliverable Items Why? The Resemblance of Geographical names The Homonymy of geographical names & passages The Lack of one part of Geographical address Writing just the address name What should we do?

7 Post code system Post Code Creation In first step the post administrations of the world invented and introduced the post code. First step result 1 - Abridging the address 2 - Adding post code to address In second step they distinguished the geographical names from place information in post code and based on it the postal functions. Second step result 1 - To reduce the dependence of address to geographical names 2 - To construct forwarding code ( geographical points ) and delivery code ( delivery zone ) in a post code.

8 Post code system Post administrations have abbreviated the main parts of standard address in the shape of forwarding and delivery code. Forwarding code indicates the name of destination or starting point. In the country includes Country Province City Delivery code indicates an area in destination or starting point. Includes some Street Alley No.

9 Post code system The Purposes of post administrations in applying post code operational Reduction of undeliverable items Facility in sorting items Acceleration in items delivery Programmatic geographical Using new technologies Standardization of postal operations Utilizing code reader machines Address abbreviation Standardization of address writing Allocating P.O. Boxes codes instead of address

10 Post code system Sample post code divisions in some countries Row country Introduction date Qty. of digits or letters Digits of forwarding code Digits of delivery code 1 Germany dig. 3 dig. 5 dig. 2 U.S.A dig. 2-3 dig. 5 dig. 3 Netherlands 4 dig & 2 let. 4 Sweden dig. 2-5 dig. 5 dig. 1-4 dig. 4 dig. & 2 let. 5 Finland dig. 2 dig. 5 dig. 6 India dig. 3 dig. 6 dig. 7 Poland dig. 2-3 dig. 5 dig. 8 Tunis dig. 2 dig. 4 dig. Iran dig. 1-5 dig. 5 dig.

11 5 digits post code system History Post code request Postal areas Post code division Operational concepts Post code possibilities January 2007

12 Iran Post Code System History Introducing 5 digits post code of Iran Total implementation of 5 digits post code of Iran Introducing 10 digits post code of Iran Total implementation of 10 digits post code of Iran

13 Why do we require post code? Iran Post Code System 5 Digits Post Code The most important applications of post code are : - Sorting - Preparing - Sending items Post code allows us : - Sorting items without geographical knowledge - Distinct cities, towns, rustics and homonym passages from each other Post code must be included post operations ( services ) plans : - Sorting, picking, dispatching postal items according to their schedules - Sorting to delivery units of the country - Sorting to delivery zones in specific geographical limits ( province, township, city )

14 Iran Post Code System 5 Digits Post Code Iran is divided into 8postal areas. Postal area 6 ۶١

15 Iran Post Code System 5 Digits Post Code 341 Postal area ٤

16 Iran Post Code System 5 Digits Post Code Post codes of Khuzestan province to 61XXX Postal region Postal district Postal part Postal zone 5 digits post code system is designed and performed according to above titles Sosangerd 6471 susa 641 Khoramshahr Andimeshk Dezful Ahvaz Shadegan 631 Abadan 6451 Shushtar Masjed Soleiman Bandar Mahshahr Ramhormoz Eazeh Omidieh Baghmalek Post code includes forwarding and delivery code Behbahan 6361 Figure 1 is separator of these two codes and it counts as a post code digit itself

17 Iran Post Code System 5 Digits Post Code Post code possibilities of the country Row Sorting center Total in country Tehran Tabriz Ahvaz Hamedan Shiraz Kerman Isfahan Mash'had zahedan Total forwarding code Quantity of forwarding codes 1 dig. 2 dig. 3 dig. 4 dig. 5 dig Qty. delivery zones Forwarding codes 2801 possibilities - Delivery zones 8565 possibilities - P.O. Boxes 1541 possibilities - Rural post codes in cities 1541 possibilities

18 Iran Post Code System 5 Digits Post Code Post code possibilities Operation concepts of post code First classification 9 mechanized sorting centers of letter post and parcels ; to Second classification Third classification Forth classification Fifth classification 64 forwarding centers of regions and districts ; to 343 forwarding centers of parts ; to 2801 forwarding centers of letter post and parcels sorting ; to 8565 delivery zones for delivering letter post and parcels

19 Iran 10 digits post code system 10 digits post code purposes 10 digits post code principles 10 digits post code structure Post code data base 10 digits post code possibilities Field operations process statistics January 2007

20 Iran Post Code System 10 Digits Post Code For - Accumulating local data - Address standardization - Classifying localities - Determining identification code of locality - Collecting geographical names ( cities and rustics ) 10 digits post code system was designed and implemented on the basis of 5 digits post code divisions.

21 Iran Post Code System 10 Digits Post Code 10 Digits Post Code Structure 10 Digits Post Code Structure 10 digits post code is constituted from two 5 digits parts. 1 st part 2 nd part Delivery zone code includes Identification code of locality includes Forwarding code ( a geographical point of postal sorting center ) Delivery code ( a zone in geographical point ) Segment code ( an area in a delivery zone including one or more blocks ) Identification code of locality ( which allocates to each locality in block )

22 Iran Post Code System 10 Digits Post Code Possibilities of 10 Digits Post Code In each delivery zone 8 possibilities 3584 possibilities possibilities of code allocating to localities

23 Iran Post Code System 10 Digits Post Code This system is based on Local information Booklet Map Folder updating Field operations Data base of all localities

24 Iran Post Code System 10 Digits Post Code Data base structure of localities Post code data base Data base characteristics Statistic data Delivery zone - Related data 10 digits post code Cities & rustics names - Fast searching - Independent classification of address components State work places Private work places Residential localities Passages names

25 Process of field operations and updating Iran Post Code System 10 Digits Post Code Preparation and correction of urban and rural maps Preparation of data list and correction of previous data during in an ordered plan in delivery zone Data processing on collected or corrected data in post code units applying latest country divisions on post code data base Collecting latest data every 3 month by post code headquarter through its units

26 Iran Post Code System 10 Digits Post Code possibilities Geographical limit of delivery zone geographical limits of postal segment 8 possibilities 3584 possibilities 279,759,232 possibilities of post code allocating to localities

27 Iran Post Code System 10 Digits Post Code Statistic data of country divisions in 10 digits post code data base Province 30 Township Ward City Rural district Rustic

28 Iran Post Code System 10 Digits Post Code Some statistics of collected data in 10 digits post code data base 26,840,790 rec. 19,678,877 rec. 7,161,913 rec. 16,296,214 rec. 4,411,491 rec. 6,133,085 rec. 1 Total collected data 2 Data quantity of urban localities 3 Data quantity of rural localities 4 Quantity of residential localities 5 Quantity of work places 6 - Others

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