

During the period between 1990 to 1993 West Germany's 4 digit codes were pre-attached with the letter W and in the eastern part of Germany the old 4 digit codes were prefixed with the letter O. Please check your FedEx shipping agreement to determine the net impact of these changes on your shipping costs. In most of the European countries postal code starts with the name of the city. There will be changes to shipping surcharges and fees that may apply to your shipment and affect your total shipping rate. Postal services have special rules for postal codes. In 1983, an extended ZIP+4 code was introduced it included the five digits of the ZIP Code, followed by a hyphen and four digits that designated a more specific location. Introduced in 1963, the basic format consisted of five digits.

Germany is probably the 1 st country which introduced a system of postal code. Postal Service began using an expanded ZIP code system called 'ZIP + 4', often called 'plus-four codes', 'add-on codes' or 'add ons.' The Postal Service has a 'Find a ZIP Code' feature on its website, which provides an address format that is most compatible with its optical character recognition (OCR) scanners. A ZIP Code is a postal code used by the United States Postal Service. It is a series of digits affixed to an address (postal) for sorting mails.
