what is a postal code?

Question

someone trying to send me something from china and they said they had to have a postal code

Answer 1

its the zip code

Answer 2

Haha - postal code is British English, or perhaps better said, international English for the ZIP code.

Yes, only we Americans say zip code - pretty much every other country in the world - English speaking or otherwise - says post code or postal code.

Our acronym means something like 'zone improvement plan' - that may not be exactly right. But the government started a promotional plan to try to get everyone to write post codes on letters - they felt the word 'zip' conveyed the meaning that mail would arrive faster -- encouragement to bother writing it in.

Now, I suppose no one would even think of mailing a letter without it - but it wasn't always so. And by the way, they contain 6 numbers in China, only five at home, so you might have to convince your Chinese friend that you haven't left a number off!

Answer 3

Zip code

Answer 4

You mean a zip code?

Answer 5

it's the zip code. its made out of 5 numbers.

Answer 6

Zip code if you are from the US.

Answer 7

ur zip code