What Zip Code Should I Use When A Country Does Not Use Postal Codes: Fill & Download for Free

Are you texting with this soldier? Is he a member of your family or have you ever met him? Has he told you what he does?I find this very curious as to be continuously deployed in Afghanistan would be administratively very unusual. Usually everyone in a unit comes and goes together. The times I have seen an individual asked to stay behind is if their specialty is in short supply, usually something like prisoner interrogation where facility with language is needed or whose local knowledge makes the job of the incoming unit easier or helps the mission. Occasionally, very occasionally there is a request from someone to stay overseas, perhaps the extra money is needed at home, or they just want to stay “where the action is”. This is usually evaluated by the command and often requires a med/psych eval before being granted permission to transfer to another unit and stay through their deployment. I have never heard of anyone doing that more than once.There is a widespread scam perpetrated by people in West Africa, primarily in Ghana and Nigeria. They meet women on dating websites like Hangouts, texting because he is in a “dangerous place” doing “secret missions” and so can’t call or Skype either because of secrecy or the expense, since he has “no access to funds while he is deployed”. I think we should consider the likelihood that your “soldier” may be one of these people.Next he will ask you to send money, gift cards, iPhones and many other things. If he hasn’t yet he will tell you soon that he has fallen in love with you, wants to come to be with you but the money situation is preventing that, so if you’ll help him he can pay you back when he sees you. He may send you pictures downloaded from Facebook or other places.Here are a couple of quick tests you can do.Ask him to send you on his military email account a list of what he needs from you…it probably won’t happen,(“security”) again, but if it does the email address should end with .mil [ nothing else just [ .mil ] every member of the military has one, some use it every day.IMPORTANT. It’s important to reenter the address before sending a return email. Pushing reply can be easily redirected. If there is anything but mil after the dot, he’s fake.Ask for his APO address( you have some phone cards, cookies etc you want to send) Here’s what an APO address should look like. Someone in the Navy might have an FPO address. It stands for fleet post office. Anything else is bogus.Name: PFC Jack LyonAddress 1: 23rd BattalionAddress 2: Unit 1234, Box 56789Country: United StatesCity: APOState: APZip/Postal Code: 96522-1215No APO or FPO address? “security” again? He’s not real.Here are some websites that will give you more information:Can You Spot the Scammer?Army investigators warn public about romance scamsOnline romance scamsIf you find that this is what’s happening don’t text him and curse him out. Some of them get a perverse pleasure out of your pain. Just block him and check with your bank to make sure no foreign withdrawals can be made without your approval or have already been made. Protect yourself. These people will use your information to steal from you aor perhaps use your accounts for illegal purposes. I know this is long, I apologize for that but I want to make sure you understand what has happened.Better a broken heart than a broken heart and an empty bank account. What you want, [ romance etc] will never happen. Your heart’s in the right place just with the wrong “man”.

I am not at all sure that I know what a "post code" is. I am going to assume it is a numeric value and there are many different possible codes. It does not matter because I can tell you when to use each of the data types you mention.Let's start with Boolean. This is a binary value with only two possibilities, true or false, one or zero. If your post code only has two values, success or failure, then you can use Boolean. I imagine your post code reports the reason for failure as various different numbers, so Boolean is out.The fixed decimal type is for specifying how many decimal points are in your code. This is commonly used for currency: to store dollars and cents use a fixed decimal with 2 decimal places. Note that dollars are numbers and can be added and subtracted. Some codes, like the old Dewey Decimal System used in libraries, also have fixed decimals, but they are codes, not numbers (it makes no sense to add two of them for example). More on that later. If your post code does not contain decimals, you should not use the fixed type.The integer type is exactly what it's name says. It is a good way to store whole numbers. And the text data type is for storing text, a string of characters, possibly numbers, possibly letters, or both.Which you should use depends on your post code. You need to decide if your code is a number or a string. The way to decide is to see if it makes sense to do arithmetic on the post codes. Are you going to add post codes together? Are you going to calculate the average post code? If these ideas sound silly, then your code is text, simply a string of characters. The fact that all the characters happen to be numbers is less important than the fact that you are not going to do math on them. Note you can still do comparisons with text values. For example you can see if the post code is equal to "1234". You can sort them in order as text data, and compare one to another. Just be sure and use quote marks when working with text values.It just came to me that what you mean is a postal code, like a zip code in the US. Those are definitely text. Some countries like Canada use letters in their postal codes.

Sorry about this but the answer is not as simple as the question and became quite a complex story.The UK invented Postage Stamps, initially by a “Franking” or stamping of the item being delivered to indicate the “Portage” or “Postage” had been paid for. This was a similar idea to that of “Levy”, Duty” or “Tariff” stamping of Import or Export goods.This became the “Penny Post”of 1680 which thrived, and became very profitable, but it only covered Central London and some of the Boroughs. It established the idea of “Post Boxes”, “Collection House” (what we would consider as a local Post Office now), “Sorting Centers” and “Deliveries by route” (up to 10 a day in some areas).The “Penny Post” divided the parts of London serviced into 7 areas, each with its own “Sorting House”, thereby establishing the idea of “Postal Areas”, albeit only from the delivery side.London Penny Post - WikipediaThis private organisation was taken over by the General Post Office in 1682. As an aside this is the first example of “Nationalisation” I have been able to find. If you know of an earlier one, please let me know.Oddly the case against the “Penny Post” is also the first case of a “Monopoly” being challenged, that I can find, as well.In 1835 a Slovene civil servant Lovrenc Košir then suggested the use of "artificially affixed postal tax stamps", but this was not undertaken.Between 1836 and 1837 Sir Rowland Hill studied the various postal systems in use in Europe (he may have been aware of Kosir’s ideas) and suggested the use of a pre printed, pre stamped gummed “Paper Stamp”. This was introduced in 1840 with the “Penny Black”which, on a dark (variegated black) back ground contained at the top the word “postage”, in the middle a left facing side portrait of Queen Victoria and at the bottom the words “One Penny”. This was the first “Stamp” to enter common usage. The Stamps were “cancelled” by the “Post Office”, which had been around since 1660, by using a stamp or Frank over the Stamp.Postage stamp - WikipediaGeneral Post Office - WikipediaAs far as I am aware the “Stamps” issued by the UK are the only ones that do not bear the name of their country of origin.On really odd thing about UK Postage Stamps is that they became, by accident, a de-facto currency. They could, and were, exchanged for goods. Even when I was young I could send a particular denomination of stamp to, say a comic publisher, and receive a poster or some other childish tat, but we all loved it. I don’t know how it worked, if this still exists, or if other countries used it or if it was legal. Never looked into it.So how does this Tie in to the Post Codes.UKWell the original 7 postal districts of London (UK) were expanded upon in 1856 to further segregate The London Postal District. This subdivision of London has continued, and expanded, since then.London postal district - WikipediaA National Scheme was introduced in 1959 and was completed in 1974.Postcodes in the United Kingdom - WikipediaStrangely, if you look at the UK National map you will see that it covers ALL of the UK landmass. this means that, in theory, even completely barren and undeveloped land has its own, unique, post code, even if not yet allocated.Now if you take a look at how the Post Code is generated you will see that it is City centric (The main sorting offices tend to be in large urban environments). This is similar to the contractions the US Postal Service uses for State Names.List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom - WikipediaList of U.S. state abbreviations - WikipediaFor instance the contraction for the District of Columbia is DC and the contraction for York (UK) is YO. London alone does not have a contraction as it is covered by many different post codes such as SW1 (South West One).As the UK is quite a small and compact country this form of “Coding” is simple, direct and give a geographical indicator at the same time.USAThe USA is over 40 times the size of the UK and has over 5 times the population.Could an “Alpha/Numeric” (AN) system work?Well lets look at “New York” as an example. A city of over 8.5 million with about 5 million individual postal addresses. That’s on a par with London where the UK Post Code System is subdivided into areas such as SW1, etc. So if it does not work in London I cannot see it working in NYC.So could it be subdivided by Borough, Manhattan (MN), Bronx(BX), Staten Island(SI), Queens(QN) and Brooklyn(BN). (My abbreviations, never seen this suggested as a solution). Well 4 of the 5 Boroughs are larger than the 2nd largest city in the UK with the 5th about the size of Liverpool in the UK.Well this could work, say a fictitious address in Brooklyn, 1 Work street (guess at post code NY - NYC - BN01 4WS), cumbersome, even ridiculous as there will be Political interference for the allocation of 2 letter prefixes. I had a quick look at the problem and i recon it would need a state Prefix and at Least a four letter prefix.So, no I don’t think the USA could adopt a UK style Post Code system as it would be horrendously cumbersome (As well as politically unacceptable?).When, in 1963, The US Postal Service (USPS) introduced the “Zone Improvement Plan” codes (ZIP codes), and updated it in 1983. They probably had their own “Rowland Hill” doing research into systems (Or knowing the US way of doing things. A committee of 15 with 2500 staff reporting to another committee of 15, who fudged it, messed about with it and generally did what committees do, then submitted a proposal for a system). It seems to have taken from 1944 to 1963 for a system to be agreed so I may not be as far off as I hoped.(Sorry for knocking the USA regarding committees, they exist the World over, and have been a major annoyance to me over the years. To me committees are a self serving, self indulgent pariah on business and Government and anyone wanting to serve on one should immediately dismissed from their post and detained for psychological evaluation. I have no faith in psychiatry either, so perhaps the evaluation could be carried out on a remote, uninhabited island somewhere off Alaska)Sorry about that RANT but where ever you see a statement “A Committee has/will/may be formed to evaluate/deal/consider with any matter” you are seeing Political double speak for “We don’t know and don’t want to carry the blame”People make decisions, not committees.So anyway, back to ZIP codes.The 5+4 ZIP Code system works for the USA at present but there have already been proposals for a 12 digit system which, I think, will designate every 10metre x 10metre geographical point in the USA.ZIP Code - WikipediaWell, finally, why does the UK not adopt a USA style ZIP Code. It is really quite straight forward, why change something that works, and has done for 150 years.