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The Jamaica Postal Code System
Deon Clarke
The internet and technological advances has heralded a renewed call for an efficient Jamaica postal code system. But where are we now, what is the current state?
Sad to say we are not much further than we were 40 years ago.
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Itโs funny how time has changed dramatically! I bet if you are over 30 years old, you will remember the days when you wrote
letters to loved ones and friends and constantly checked at the post
office, anticipating the return, right?
Those days have basically become
obsolete. In todayโs world, phone calls, emails and social media are the order
of the day.
See Also: Jamaica Area Codes
However, despite technological advances, you will find that mailing is
still very much in high demand! Maybe not for personal letters anymore,
but certainly logistics is on the rise.
Online shopping and shipping
locally and internationally has become common place for many Jamaicans hence the increasing request for a Jamaica postal code, but...
Say you are placing an order online and you are asked to enter your zip
code or postal code, what do you do? I personally enter โ00000โ. Why?
Jamaica does not have postal codes. Thatโs right. There is no postal
code system in Jamaica presently.
There was an attempt however to introduce this system several years ago. We will look at this proposal in more detail.
The plan to introduce the postal code system was initially announced on
June 6, 2005. Itโs purpose โ to aid the international partners of the
Postal Corporation of Jamaica such as the United States, United Kingdom
and Canada to be better able to sort letters that were intended for
Jamaica. You would find that at times, these letters would ended up in
Jamaica in Long Island in the U. S. or even in Japan!
Plans were aborted to introduce the system in Kingston in July 2005 as
many persons found the it difficult to understand. Despite reports in
the Sunday Observer newspaper on April 2, 2006 that the system would
have been ready by the end of the year, those plans did not materialize.
Finally, on February 12, 2007, the announcement was made that the project was suspended indefinitely!
Under this system, you would see Jamaica being divided into four zones:
A, B, C, D. These zones would have certain parishes within them. This
letter would have been used as the third letter after โJMโ for Jamaica.
This would have been followed by a two-letter abbreviation for the
parish, followed by a 2-digit code. For example: JMCAN19 โ Ocho Rios.
Please see the below list with details:
You will see that the parish code is actually the first and last letter of each parish. The "St" would also be dropped from relevant parishes.
The 2-digit Post Office Code would identify the post office in alphabetical order by parish:
An example of this is the Allman Town Post Office in the Parish of
Kingston.
It is the first Post Office in an alphabetical list of the Post Offices in the Parish of Kingston, as a result, it would be assigned 01 for its Post Office Code.
So the next time you go shopping
online or you are sending a package, no need to worry about postal
codes for Jamaica - yes, you can always use the one designated above, or should I say to be designated, it doesn't hurt, or simply, do what I do....
... just enter some 4 or 5 zeros in the interim. :-)
I hope this helped.
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