推行邮政编码的工作在工业发达国家开展得较早,英国早在50年代就提出了邮政编码的构思,并于1959年在本国的诺威治邮区试用。从此引起了世界上不少国家的注意。西德于1961年正式公布使用四位数字邮政编码,成为世界上第一个在全国范围内实行邮政编码的国家,紧接着实行邮政编码的国家是美国、法国、瑞土和澳大利亚,以后逐步发展到匈牙利、苏联、印度、巴西等国,到1982年,实行 The implementation of postal code in industrialized countries to carry out earlier, the United Kingdom as early as the 50’s put forward the postal code concept, and in 1959 in its own Norwich postal trial. Since then it has attracted the attention of many countries in the world. West Germany formally announced the use of four-digit postal codes in 1961 and became the first country in the world to implement postal codes in the whole country. The countries followed by the postal codes were the United States, France, Switzerland and Australia, and gradually developed To Hungary, the Soviet Union, India, Brazil and other countries, to 1982, the implementation