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From: Tom Hofmann <cgch!wtho@relay.eu.net>
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Subject: Re: Another Clue to Possible E. German Prefixes
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Date: 6 Jun 90 12:03:37 GMT
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In article <8576@accuvax.nwu.edu> mtxinu!Ingres.COM!jas@uunet.uu.net
writes:

|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?).

As I heard from West German news two weeks ago, Germany is going to
have five-digits postal codes after the unification.  District
post-office numbers will then be integrated in the codes (West Germany
has always been an exception herein).


Tom Hofmann        wtho%cgch@relay.EU.net