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From: mtxinu!llama.Ingres.COM!jas@uunet.uu.net (Jim Shankland)
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Subject: Re: Another Clue to Possible E. German Prefixes
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In article <8432@accuvax.nwu.edu> 0002909785@mcimail.com (J. Stephen
Reed) writes:

>West German postal codes are normally four digits, ranging from 1000
>(West Berlin) to 7999.  An article in the Germany Philatelic Society
>magazine noted that according to a Deutsche Bundespost bulletin some
>years ago, the 8000s and 9000s are reserved for "other German regions".

Not quite right.  Don't know about the 9000 series, but the 8000
series is used by Munich and surroundings (much of Upper Bavaria?).

jas