no postal code in hong kong?
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kong says they don't have postal codes there. True?
Jason Goacher
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John
Hong Kong is a very small city. There's no postal code there.
John.
Leigh Melton
>I heve never mailed anything without a postal code. Buyer from hong
>kong says they don't have postal codes there. True?
This is easily found on the Hong Kong Post site.
From
http://www.hongkongpost.com/PO_Guide/Post%20Guide%20pdf%20folder/Section%206.pdf
6.1 METHOD OF ADDRESSING
GENERAL
Delay to correspondence and mistakes in delivery are caused mainly by
incorrect or incomplete postal addresses. The Post Office cannot
undertake to correct or complete a wrong or insufficient address. The
full address should therefore be typed or legibly written in the lower
part of the right-hand half of the front of the envelope, with a clear
margin above (not less than 40 mm deep) for the postage stamps and
postmarks, leaving the lefthand bottom corner blank. The names of the
place and country of destination should be indicated in capital
letters, see also the following illustrations. It is recommended that
the sender's name and address be written at the top left-hand corner
of the front of the envelope and be sufficiently separated from the
addressee’s address to avoid any misunderstanding or on the back of
the envelope in order to facilitate return in the event of
non-delivery.
LOCAL POST
For Hong Kong, the address should always include :
1. Name of addressee,
2. Flat and Floor numbers,
3. Name of building,
4. Number of building and name of street,
5. Name of village, town or district (in CAPITAL LETTERS),
6. Hong Kong, Kowloon or New Territories as appropriate (in CAPITAL
LETTERS).
Example:
Mr. CHAN Kwok-kwong
Flat 25, 12/F, Acacia Building
150 Kennedy Road
WAN CHAI
HONG KONG
LOCAL POST : P . O . BOX ADDRESS
For items addressed to P.O. Boxes in Hong Kong, the address should
always include :
1.Name of addressee,
2.P.O. Box number,
3.Name of Post Office (in CAPITAL LETTERS) at which the box is
located,
4.Hong Kong, Kowloon, or New Territories, as appropriate (in CAPITAL
LETTERS).
Example:
Mr. WONG Yat-ming
P.O. Box 42345
CAUSEWAY BAY POST OFFICE
HONG KONG
Leigh
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Dave Busch
that I have caved in and started bottom-posting, except when I forget:
>
>Hong Kong is a very small city. There's no postal code there.
>
>John.
If Hong Kong is a very small city with 7.2 million residents, does
that make Chicago (2.9 million) and Los Angeles (3.7 million)
villages??
bp
> If Hong Kong is a very small city with 7.2 million residents, does
> that make Chicago (2.9 million) and Los Angeles (3.7 million)
> villages??
A quick web search shows Hong Kong has a land area of 1042 square kilometres
and Los Angeles has a land area of 4,081 square miles.
(hmm. lets see . . . 1 km = 0.62 mi, so 1 sq sk = 0.3844 mi. 1042 x 0.3844 =
400.5448)
Hong Kong is one tenth the size of Los Angeles.
Richard Ward
Just for arguments sake, Duncanville, Texas, where I live, has 36,000
people in 12 square miles of city. It also has three zip codes. With
7.2 million people, Hong Kong has more population than a significant
number of US states.
Hong Kong may not have postal codes, but I don't buy that it has
anything to do with it's size.
Richard Ward
bp
> (hmm. lets see . . . 1 km = 0.62 mi, so 1 sq sk = 0.3844 mi. 1042 x 0.3844
=
> 400.5448)
That should read:
(hmm. lets see . . . 1 km = 0.62 mi, so 1 sq km = 0.3844 sq mi. 1042 x
0.3844 = 400.5448)
bp
> Just for arguments sake, Duncanville, Texas, where I live, has 36,000
> people in 12 square miles of city. It also has three zip codes. With
> 7.2 million people, Hong Kong has more population than a significant
> number of US states.
>
> Hong Kong may not have postal codes, but I don't buy that it has
> anything to do with it's size.
I'm sure that there's someplace with a population of 50 that has it's own
zip code.
But Hong Kong has it's own postal system. Let's say that if it was in the
US, it would have 100 zip codes. Now, when you need 100 different
designators of some sort, do you use random-looking alpha/numeric codes?
In the example that Leigh posted, the address was:
Mr. CHAN Kwok-kwong
Flat 25, 12/F, Acacia Building
150 Kennedy Road
WAN CHAI
HONG KONG
I would guess that the disctrict part ("WAN CHAI" ) probably designates an
area as specific as a US zip code.
Richard Ward
If correct, then it doesn't have postal codes because it uses something
else instead, and it's lack of postal codes has nothing to do with it's
size.
Richard Ward
Dave Busch
have caved in and started bottom-posting, except when I forget:
>Dave Busch wrote
That's pretty cool. It means Abilene, TX (Pop. 121,000) is TWICE as
large as Hong Kong. And my town (Pop. 10,000) is almost a quarter the
size of Chicago.
They'd better start reapportioning that federal aid.
Ron Hudson
is for Los Angeles County.
I don't know if Hong Kong is one city or a group of smaller ones together like
Los Angeles.
Ron
bp
> The city of Los Angeles is 469 sq miles or 1215 sq km. The number you are
using
> is for Los Angeles County.
>
> I don't know if Hong Kong is one city or a group of smaller ones together
like
> Los Angeles.
doh. It was too good to be true.
Leigh Melton
wrote:
>I don't know if Hong Kong is one city or a group of smaller ones together like
>Los Angeles.
Hong Kong is the name given to three entities, the Special
Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, the Island of
Hong Kong and the City of Hong Kong.
Statistics given for "Hong Kong" need to be pinned down a bit for real
comparisons.
The SAR government keeps a rather nice website at info.gov.hk (in
English and Chinese) if you're interested.
bp
> If correct, then it doesn't have postal codes because it uses something
> else instead, and it's lack of postal codes has nothing to do with it's
> size.
Okay, it's impossible to give a definitive reason for the lack of something,
but isn't size (or, more specifically, scale) the reason that, say, the USPS
uses postal codes instead of the "something else" that Hong Kong uses?
I guess what I was trying to say is that the Hong Kong PO is operating on
such a scale that they have apparently not found it necessary to use postal
codes.
Kris Baker
Leigh Melton wrote in message
<34g4hu8i17c4u82qr...@4ax.com>...
>On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:33:55 GMT, Ron Hudson <R...@Intermediacorp.net>
>wrote:
>
>>I don't know if Hong Kong is one city or a group of smaller ones together
like
>>Los Angeles.
>
>Hong Kong is the name given to three entities, the Special
>Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, the Island of
>Hong Kong and the City of Hong Kong.
>
>Statistics given for "Hong Kong" need to be pinned down a bit for real
>comparisons.
>
>The SAR government keeps a rather nice website at info.gov.hk (in
>English and Chinese) if you're interested.
>
>Leigh
Here's some sample Hong Kong addresses; you can see that
there IS an area designation of sorts - it's just not numeric
and is the name of an area:
Department of Mathematics
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
TDC Business InfoCentre
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Expo Drive
Wanchai Hong Kong
Innovation and Technology Commission
36/F Immigration Tower
7 Gloucester Rd.
Wanchai Hong Kong
Consolate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
21/F, United Centre
95 Queensway,
Central, Hong Kong Island
British Council Hong Kong
3 Supreme Court Road
Admiralty, Hong Kong
BBLP BEITEN BURKHARDT MITTL & WEGENER.
14/F, HONG KONG DIAMOND EXCHANGE
BUILDING, 8-10
DUDDELL STREET
CENTRAL, HONG KONG
SAP
Suite 1111-1114,
11/F , Cityplaza 4,
12 Taikoo Wan Road,
Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong
Kris