National postcode contributes to improving the quality of service.

Delegates press the button to inaugurate the website of searching national postcode

The implementation of applying the national postcode in the postal sector will bring many benefits for postal customers, enterprises providing postal services as well as stated administrative authorities.

For postal customers, the using of postcode on postage will support the process of transferring and delivering items quickly, accurately and safely to the addresses of the recipients.

Up to now, the total number of postcodes have been assigned to 21,405 codes for subjects including 11,093 wards, communes and equivalent administrative units; 3,768 service points in the public postal network; 6,544 service points and postal service subjects serving the Party's and State's agencies; 206 diplomatic missions and international organizations in Vietnam. Number of stored codes are 78,595.

The customers can access to the website http://mabuuchinh.vn;http://postcode.vnto get the information about national postcode or search on the website of the MIC http://mic.gov.vn.

The software system on the website will provide the customer with postcode data when the commune/ward/ town information is available on the customer's address or the name of the agencies, organizations; the name of diplomatic organs, international organizations…in Vietnam and vice versa.

The Deputy Minister of Information and Communications made a speech at the ceremony of national postcode announcement

In his speech, Deputy Minister Nguyen Minh Hong said that in the past, the 6-digit national postcode was widely used in the business of the Vietnam Post. However, the MIC has recently studied and referred to the experiences of many countries and realized that the postcode only needs 5 digit numbers. Therefore, on 23/6/2017 the MIC issued the Decree on the national postcode which defined the postcode including 5 digit numbers instead of previous 6 digit numbers.

On 29^th December 2017, the MIC signed the Decision 2475/QD/BTTTT on issuing the national postcode. According to this, the national postcode includes 5 digit numbers assigned to communes, wards and equivalent units; postal service points in the public postal network; postal service points and service subjects of the postal network in service of the Party's and the State's organs; Foreign diplomatic missions, consulates, and representative offices of international organizations in Vietnam.

According to Deputy Minister Nguyen Minh Hong, the new national postcode is easy to remember and can be used more widely. The MIC expects this code not only applied in the operation of Vietnam Post but also widely applied in other postal enterprises to serve the sorting activities, distributing directions for items, IT application in sorting activities. Moreover, the postcode can be applied in e-commerce business. Many other socio-economic areas can be applied such as digital map attached weather forecast, searching the ways by the postcode…

Vice President Chu Thi Lan Huong said that the application of postcode for sending mail, items would help the operation, sorting more conveniently and faster.

Ms. Chu Thi Lan Huong, Vice President of Vietnam Post said that one of the key steps in postal production which was the exact and quick operation, sorting and delivery should be paid attention.

It can be said that the postcode is the basis of the application of automatic technology in operation and sorting at the mail sorting centers. Without the code, the use of automatic sorting devices would be ineffective due to the fact that many workers are still required to distribute the directions of the items at delivery addresses.

 The delegates from the Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs and communications study and experience the search of national postcode of Vietnam