is A0A1A0 a valid postal code?

[Daniel Haran]

Is A0A1A0 a valid postal code?

Sites that don't recognize it:

http://www.elections.ca/home.asp
http://ridings.ndp.ca/en
http://www.greenparty.ca/en/find_your_riding

Sites that do:

http://www.conservative.ca/EN/1051
http://www.liberal.ca/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/index.asp?Language=E


Can anyone shed some light on what's going on here?

d.

[Cory Horner]

It's might be a watermark, like when a book publisher intentionally  
misspells a word in order to assert copyright.

Canada post says:

http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/range-e.asp

GD   AQUAFORTE NL A0A 1A0

I wonder what "delivery mode" GD means... as there are no other  
addresses associated with it.

Hard to say if it is legitimate... it could just be that canada post  
is using the same data source as the others.  Where do the geocoders  
place it?  Does anyone have a geometry associated with A0A?

Cheers,
Cory.

On 10-Oct-08, at 12:44 PM, Daniel Haran wrote:

> Is A0A1A0 a valid postal code?
>
> Sites that don't recognize it:
>
> http://www.elections.ca/home.asp
> http://ridings.ndp.ca/en
> http://www.greenparty.ca/en/find_your_riding
>
> Sites that do:
>
> http://www.conservative.ca/EN/1051
> http://www.liberal.ca/
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/
> http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/index.asp?Language=E
>
>
> Can anyone shed some light on what's going on here?
>
> d.
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[Ilona Dougherty]

FYI. GD means General Delivery. It is used in small communities where  
there are no street addresses. Thus there being no addresses  
associated with it.

I would imagine that it is a legit postal code.

I know often Canada Post doesn't have northern postal codes recorded  
properly in their system.
I have more then once been told by Canada Post employees that the  
Yukon postal codes I have given them "aren't in canada"

Ilona

On 10-Oct-08, at 11:34 PM, Cory Horner wrote:

> It's might be a watermark, like when a book publisher intentionally  
> misspells a word in order to assert copyright.
>
> Canada post says:
>
> http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/range-e.asp
>
> GD   AQUAFORTE NL A0A 1A0
>
> I wonder what "delivery mode" GD means... as there are no other  
> addresses associated with it.
>
> Hard to say if it is legitimate... it could just be that canada  
> post is using the same data source as the others.  Where do the  
> geocoders place it?  Does anyone have a geometry associated with A0A?
>
> Cheers,
> Cory.
>
> On 10-Oct-08, at 12:44 PM, Daniel Haran wrote:
>
>> Is A0A1A0 a valid postal code?
>>
>> Sites that don't recognize it:
>>
>> http://www.elections.ca/home.asp
>> http://ridings.ndp.ca/en
>> http://www.greenparty.ca/en/find_your_riding
>>
>> Sites that do:
>>
>> http://www.conservative.ca/EN/1051
>> http://www.liberal.ca/
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/
>> http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/index.asp?Language=E
>>
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on what's going on here?
>>
>> d.
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