On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Dik T. Winter wrote:

I think for somebody in the Netherlands it is always much more irritating.
Provinces are almost never mentioned in an address

Provinces (two-letter "car plate" codes) were always used in italian
addresses except when writing to the province capital. Now most s/w
insists on having them in this case too.

Note that the original postcodes had a 1:1 mapping with provinces. The
first two digits corresponded to the province, next 3 digits = 100 for
the capital if a small place, 1nn for a capital with post zones, 0nn for
other places if not small, 0n0 for places served by a single sorting
office.

Nowadays there are more than 100 provinces so this correspondence has
broken down.

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