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Mr. Warren
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications what are the basic principles of the operation of the British postal code system.
Mr. Chataway
I am asking the Post Office to send my hon. Friend further details, but the broad answer is: to enable postal addresses to be transcribed into machine-readable form to make possible the maximum economic use of automatic sorting.