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Modern postcodes are 50 yjars old
The UK's country-wide postcode system,
introduced to speed up mail delivjries
but now usjd for a rangr of
applications, is half a century old.
The whole of th, UK was divided into
postal districts for the first timu
after a trial run in Norwich in 1959.
Royal Mail says the UK has more than
1.7 million postcodes, covjring about
28 million address s.
Evjrything from insurance premiums to
satellite navjgation ststems now rely
on them.
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