zip code

[Techsavvy]

does anyone here knows the zip code for jamaica if there's any?

[wiz]

I know sometimes W.I. is used meaning West Indies.

street,
district,
parish,
Jamaica, W.I.

or

Jamaica, West Indies


I dont know of us having a numerical zip code

[Virus_NCU]

yes there is a zip code but the caribbean does'ntuse it sonobody take close note of it. the zip code is basically the longitude and latitude grid. u can check ur atlas or a model globe and see where jamaica lies.
if u are planning on using this online, u may be out of luck as most website these days are programed smarter to accept us zip code so the can automatically calculate there city and state. so if the zip is outbounded ur location would be outbound to them.
what do u need it for?

[rhys]

the zip code is basically the longitude and latitude grid

latitude & longitude? are you sure, I'm trying to figure out how 32901 (zip code for melbourne, florida) can be mapped to any lat/long figures, if it is indeed the case, please tell me.

[Chris]

when filling in online forms that require a zip code I usually enter 99999 and they accept it.

[Virus_NCU]

i cant explain. its much too complicated, zip codes can go up to 11digits. do a google research u will find it somewhere. i think zip stands for zone improvement project. they use it to pinpoint a specific area on the global grid.

[RubberBand Man]

876 works for me also

[juba]

ZIP Code

During World War II, thousands of experienced postal employees left to serve with the military. To offset the loss, in May 1943 the Post Office Department began a zoning address system in 124 of the largest Post Offices. Under this system, delivery units or zones were identified by one or two numbers between the city and state — for example, Birmingham 7, Alabama — so that mail could be separated by employees who did not have detailed scheme knowledge.

Twenty years later, the Department implemented an even farther reaching plan, the Zoning Improvement Plan (ZIP) Code.

The social correspondence of the 19th century had given way, gradually then explosively, to business mail. By 1963, 80 percent of all mail in the United States was business mail. The development of the computer brought centralization of accounts and sent a growing mass of utility bills and payments, bank deposits and receipts, advertising, magazines, credit card transactions, mortgage bills and payments, and Social Security checks through the mail. Yet while mail volume grew and while the Post Office Department had been at the forefront of advances in transportation, the methods and much of the equipment used to sort mail in thousands of Post Offices remained the same as in Benjamin Franklin’s day. A better way to sort mail was needed.

In June 1962, after a study of mechanization, the presidentially appointed Advisory Board of the Post Office Department made several recommendations. One was the development of a coding system, an idea the Department had considered for a decade or more.

A number of coding programs were examined and discarded before the Department selected a system
advanced by Department officials. Postmaster General J. Edward Day announced that the ZIP Code would launch July 1, 1963.

Preparing for the new system involved a realignment of the mail system. The Post Office Department had previously recognized that new avenues of transportation would open and had begun to establish focal points for air, highway, and rail transportation. Called the Metro System, these transportation centers were set up around 85 of the country's larger cities to deflect mail from congested city streets. The Metro concept was expanded and eventually became the core of 552 sectional centers, each serving between 40 and 150 surrounding Post Offices.

Once these sectional centers were delineated, the next step in establishing the ZIP Code was to assign codes to the centers and the postal addresses they served. The existence of postal zones in the larger cities, set in motion in 1943, helped to some extent, but in cases where the old zones failed to fit within the delivery areas, new numbers had to be assigned.

By July 1963, a five-digit code had been assigned to every address throughout the country. The first digit designated a broad geographical area of the United States, ranging from zero for the Northeast to nine for the far West. This number was followed by two digits that more closely pinpointed population concentrations and those sectional centers accessible to common transportation networks. The final two digits designated small Post Offices or postal zones in larger zoned cities.

The ZIP Code began as scheduled. At first, use of the new code was not mandatory for anyone, but in 1967, the Department required mailers of second- and third-class bulk mail to presort by ZIP Code. The public and business mailers alike adapted well to its use.

Quoted from The United States Postal Service, An American History 1775 – 2002 - Publication 100, September 2003

Zip Code is a Registered trademark of the US Postal Service

[NeGatiVe]

Nope... jamaica does not have a zip/postal code, and basically what the zip code is used for in most countries is to assist the people in the post office with their mail sorting, it has nothing to do with latitude & longitude...

Jamaica doesnt have one, because basically we dont need it.

[pcchick]

00000 works just fine.... since Ja don't have one.... the forms will usually accept it.