Postal Code guides for Canada
How postal codes are structured, what the parts mean, and how to find the right one. Or skip the reading and detect your postal code now.
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FSA vs LDU: The Two Halves of a Canadian Postal Code
The first three characters of a Canadian postal code describe a place. The last three describe a delivery round. Nearly everything confusing about the system follows from that split.
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The Six Letters a Canadian Postal Code Never Uses
D, F, I, O, Q and U never appear in a Canadian postal code, and the first letter is a province shorthand that quietly fails at the edges. Both facts are useful and both are commonly misused.
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Validating and Storing Canadian Postal Codes
Canadian postal codes are easier to validate than most and still get corrupted constantly. The rules worth enforcing, the ones that reject real addresses, and what to do about the ZIP code field.
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