Egypt launches new postcode system
Since ages and Egypt has been using a vintage postal code system, that system depends on the distribution of the Egypt Postal Offices, so if we take the governorate Cairo as an example, it has around 285 post offices hence it will cover 285 postal code, so you have to imagine the huge city of Cairo was segmented only to 285 postal codes.
The Problem here is the difficulty to identify any address using this massive segmentation system, so there was urge to find a better solution for such issue.
The Solution came early this year 2020 as full new postal code system which is no longer depends on the post offices to identify the postal code, but a better new system which segment the entire country into very small polygons.
Using this solution, it will be much easier and faster for the e-commerce and delivery companies to identify any address in Egypt.
The challenge is how to find the postal code for any location in Egypt and how to navigate to it? And the simple answer was found on the Egypt Postal Code website, the website is easy, you just need to allow access to your location and that’s it.
It is also coming with an API to validate any postal code inside Egypt and also get the postal code using user location, alongside other useful features such as looking for the post offices, working hours and service available within the office.