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The last two digits represent the delivery office within the sorting district starting from "01" which would be the
General Post Office (GPO) or head office (HO). The numbering of the delivery office is done chronologically with higher numbers assigned to newer delivery offices. If the volume of mail
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Each PIN is mapped to exactly one delivery post office which receives all the mail to be delivered to one or lower offices within its jurisdiction, all of which share the same code. The delivery office can either be a
General Post Office (GPO), a head office (HO), or a sub-office (SO) which are
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usually located in urban areas. The post from the delivery office is sorted and routed to other delivery offices for a different PIN or to one of the relevant sub-offices or branch offices for the same PIN. Branch offices (BOs) are located in rural areas and have limited postal services.
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The third digit of a PIN, combined with the first two digits, represents a specific geographical region (except in the case of the functional zone for the Army) called a sorting district that is headquartered at the main post office of the largest city in the region and is known as the
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The first digit of a PIN indicates the zone, the second indicates the sub-zone, and the third, combined with the first two, indicates the sorting district within that zone. The final three digits are assigned to individual post offices within the sorting district.
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handled at a delivery office is too large, a new delivery office is created and the next available PIN is assigned. Thus, two delivery offices situated next to each other will only have the first four digits in common.
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There are nine postal zones in India, including eight regional zones and one functional zone (for the Indian Army). The first digit of a PIN indicates the zone and is allocated over the 9 zones as follows:
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78:. The system was introduced to simplify the manual sorting and delivery of mail by eliminating confusion over incorrect addresses, similar place names, and different languages used by the public.
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Sometimes incorrectly written as "Pin code", "Pincode", "PINcode", or "pincode".
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59:. On 15 August 2022, the PIN system celebrated its 50th anniversary.
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1108:"Tamilnadu Postal Circle – Pincode"
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222:State of Uttarakhand
1531:limited recognition
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631:40–44 (except 403)
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1279:Afghanistan
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638:Maharashtra
585:Uttarakhand
482:PIN prefix
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42:redundantly
1643:Categories
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1484:Tajikistan
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1379:Kazakhstan
1299:Bangladesh
1289:Azerbaijan
1019:References
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1146:14 August
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1419:Maldives
1414:Malaysia
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1156:cite web
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898:Nagaland
891:797–798
852:793–794
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46:PIN code
1514:Vietnam
1429:Myanmar
1409:Lebanon
1339:Georgia
1294:Bahrain
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