Postal Codes

Postal code definition

Colombian postal code is the new free service offered by 4-72, the Colombian postal network, that allows the service user in the country to have a postal identity to the nation and the world.

The postal code consists of six digits that identify, a geographical position, a guidance and the last ones locate us in the postal area.

The postal code can be used nationwide and international but it never replaces the destiny or origin address.

The postal code’s structure in our country is:
The first two digits represent the national departments based on the DANE´s current codification, if the number is less than ten a cero must be placed to the left.

The third and fourth positions define the guidance postal zone, to facilitate the classification through the postal code there are the following conventions:

00- Reserved for the department’s capital.

01-89 – These numbers divide each department up to eighty nine zones of postal guidance.

90-99 – Indicates that the mail goes directed to mail boxes located at the postal offices of each department.

The postal code’s last two positions allow the assignation of one hundred postal districts to each of the ten postal zones created in each department. This means that a thousand different districts can be assigned to each department, thirty three thousand in total nationwide.