RE: Some More Off-List Comments

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Lampson [mailto:lampson@iaregistry.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:46 AM
> To: Hollenbeck Scott; 'ietf-provregcafaxse'
> Subject: Re: Some More Off-List Comments
> 
> 
> Scott,
> 
> The Universal Postal Union only lists 5 digit postal codes 
> for both France
> and Mexico.

[snip]

FWIW here's the text of the comment I received from Asbjorn Stiera; I don't
think he'll mind me forwarding it to provide context:

"according to a postcode site (1), Mexico allows a 13 digit postal code 
for their "bulk mail code". In addition, in France it is not uncommon to 
append "CEDEX" to the postcode "for business adresses with special 
delivery arrangements" (1)(2), meaning a French post code can 
potentially have 11 digits (5+" "+5)."

I didn't see these possibilities mentioned on the UPU site, though.

> P.S. Without knowing the specific needs (and future changes) of postal
> identifiers used throughout the world, I would say that a 16 
> character limit
> sounds better than 10.

That was part of Asbjorn's argument as well.

-Scott-

(1)
http://www.magma.ca/~djcl/postcd.txt

(2)
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/culture-french-faq/miscellaneous/section-2.html