Thanks a lot, Devdatta. > On May 10, 2019, at 8:00 AM, Devdatta Tengshe <devda...@tengshe.in> wrote: > > And One Post office can serve multiple pincodes (I've heard this from > Employees of the Postal Department, but haven't found an example of it) > This is quite odd. Would be good to confirm this. > > I was told by an old Post master, that certain Government Buildings had > their own Pincodes, and hence the post office which delivered to that > building, as well as the area around that building, delivered post to > multiple pincodes. > > This is either a myth, or an historic fact, but I haven't seen any example of > this. > > > Regards, > Devdatta > > > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 5:02 PM Arun Ganesh <arungra...@gmail.com > <mailto:arungra...@gmail.com>> wrote: > There used to be a hackpad > https://datameet.hackpad.com/PINCODE-Hell.-M4hPFJVV2Gm > <https://datameet.hackpad.com/PINCODE-Hell.-M4hPFJVV2Gm> with a lot of > pincode research which unfortunately seems to be lost. > > Unique pincodes are assigned to an area that has substantial postal > deliveries. A pincode area could be as small as a university with a single > post office, or an entire district with multiple post offices. > > For each pincode, only one post office serves as the delivery office, where > all post destined for the pincode lands, and is further routed to one of the > non delivery post offices in the same pincode based on address. > > > And One Post office can serve multiple pincodes (I've heard this from > > Employees of the Postal Department, but haven't found an example of it) > > This is quite odd. Would be good to confirm this. > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about > us by visiting http://datameet.org <http://datameet.org/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CA%2BGKQr3y63iPy9bNWcWGTKT8vPpa_-6VbCLXGZ6jLxjY1MHrTQ%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CA%2BGKQr3y63iPy9bNWcWGTKT8vPpa_-6VbCLXGZ6jLxjY1MHrTQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about > us by visiting http://datameet.org <http://datameet.org/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAOQOUMtZr6yz%3DrZ1L36bPMrsZmRy1U137XVK0JBoPzHzv1C0fA%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/CAOQOUMtZr6yz%3DrZ1L36bPMrsZmRy1U137XVK0JBoPzHzv1C0fA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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