Can anyone enlighten me on what the difference going on here is? Is the
postcode somehow available in the hierarchy, but at the same time
sometimes not? Or am I overlooking something really obvious?

The following query strings return:

?q=Pretoriusstraat 43-H, Amsterdam&format=json
...
display_name: "43-H, Pretoriusstraat, Oost-Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam,
Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdam, Stadsregio Amsterdam, North Holland, Kingdom
of the Netherlands, 1092EZ, The Netherlands",

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But, despite that query returning 1092EZ on Pretoriusstraat

/?q=Pretoriusstraat, Amsterdam, 1092EZ&format=json
[]

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So, obviously also,

?q=Pretoriusstraat 42-H, Amsterdam, 1092EZ&format=json
[]

But this isn't the case for all similar queries with a postcode on the
street,

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Looking at the street

/?q=Pretoriusstraat, Amsterdam&format=json
...
"display_name": "Pretoriusstraat, Oost-Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam,
Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdam, Stadsregio Amsterdam, North Holland, Kingdom
of the Netherlands, 1092 JZ, The Netherlands",
"display_name": "Pretoriusstraat, Oost-Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam,
Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdam, Stadsregio Amsterdam, North Holland, Kingdom
of the Netherlands, 1092EX, The Netherlands",
display_name": "Pretoriusstraat, Oost-Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam,
Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdam, Stadsregio Amsterdam, North Holland, Kingdom
of the Netherlands, 1092CP, The Netherlands",
"display_name": "Pretoriusstraat, Oost-Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam,
Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdam, Stadsregio Amsterdam, North Holland, Kingdom
of the Netherlands, 1092CP, The Netherlands",
"display_name": "Pretoriusstraat, Linnaeusstraat, Oost-Watergraafsmeer,
Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdam, Stadsregio Amsterdam, North
Holland, Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1092CN, The Netherlands",
"display_name": "Pretoriusstraat, Tugelaweg, Oost-Watergraafsmeer,
Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdam, Stadsregio Amsterdam, North
Holland, Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1092 CL, The Netherlands",

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Picking one that came up

?q=Pretoriusstraat, Amsterdam, 1092EX&format=json
...
"display_name": "Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdam, Stadsregio
Amsterdam, North Holland, Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1092EX, The
Netherlands",

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So picking a house number in 1092EX. It works with the postcode?

?q=Pretoriusstraat 17-H,  Amsterdam, 1092EX
"display_name": "17-H, Pretoriusstraat, Oost-Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam,
Stadsdeel Oost, Amsterdam, Stadsregio Amsterdam, North Holland, Kingdom
of the Netherlands, 1092EX, The Netherlands",

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