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postal codes A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal a ...

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispa ...

, with one and two-digit sector codes only being used in Kingston, the country's capital. A plan to introduce a postcode system, was first announced on June 6, 2005. This was to assist the

Postal Corporation of Jamaica The Postal Corporation of Jamaica Ltd. is the national post office of Jamaica. External links Official website. Communications in Jamaica * Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it ...

's international partners in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada to sort letters bound for Jamaica, which ended up in Japan or Jamaica in Long Island in the US. Despite reports in the '' Sunday Observer'''' in 2006 that it would be ready introduced by the end of that year, the system was not brought into force because plans to introduce it to Kingston in July 2005 were put on hold due to the fact that the public had difficulty understanding the system. On February 12, 2007 it was announced that the postcode project had been suspended indefinitely. The codes were planned to be alphanumeric, in the format: JMAPPNN, where * JM is the

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of ...

country code * A is a letter for one of four zones * PP are two letters for a parish * NN is a two-digit number for a post office

Division of postal codes

The zones were described in a press release of Jamaica Post 18 July 2005, the encoding of the post offices one week later on 25 July 2005. The four zones into which the parishes are divided does not correspond with the traditional division of parishes into counties. The parish codes are as follows. *Zone A parishes ** Kingston: KN **

St. Andrew Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Peter ...

: AW ** St. Catherine: CE *Zone B parishes ** St. Thomas: TS ** Portland: PD **

St. Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...

: MY *Zone C parishes **

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: HR ** St. James: JS **

Trelawny Trelawny or Trelawney may refer to: Places * Trelawny (electoral division), an electoral division of Cornwall * Trelawny, Black Hill, Ballarat, a heritage house in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia * Trelawny, Jamaica, a parish of Cornwall County, Jam ...

: TY ** St. Ann: AN *Zone D parishes ** Clarendon: CN **

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: MR ** St. Elizabeth: EH ** Westmoreland: WD

Relationship to existing postal zones

Although Kingston, the country's capital, along with part of the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...

St Andrew Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Pete ...

, was already subdivided into postal zones, these were not incorporated into the new codes. For example, JMAAW03 was to be the postcode for Kingston 8, rather than JMAAW08, which was to be the postcode for

Half Way Tree Half Way Tree is a neighbourhood in the city of Kingston, Jamaica. It is the parish capital of St. Andrew. Half Way Tree is served by the Kingston 10 post office. In recent years, as a result of crime and violence in Downtown Kingston and Cr ...

, in Kingston 10, while the postcode for

Vineyard Town Vineyard Town is a neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola) ...

, Kingston 3 was to have been JMAAW20.Kgn 8 post code is JMAAW03

, June 13, 2005

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Jamaica Post

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Communications in Jamaica

Division of postal codes

Relationship to existing postal zones

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