Re: is A0A1A0 a valid postal code?

Posted by Ilona Dougherty on Oct 11, 2008; 9:48pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/is-A0A1A0-a-valid-postal-code-tp1330p1333.html

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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