Postal codes in Namibia
After 28 years without a postal code system in Namibia, the national postal service provider NamPost introduced new postal codes in December 2018.[1]
They consist of five digits, where the first two indicate the region, the last two the post office and the third digit is always a 0.
Address format examples
| Details (as variables) |
P.O. Box | Private Bag | Postal Storage (poste restante) |
Physical Address (urban areas) |
Physical Address (rural areas) |
Physical Address (informal areas) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [addressee] | Mr G. Bailey | Ms Virginia Freeman | Mr Wilmarc LEWIES | Nangula Hamuteny | Ms Rosalia Iwata | P Rossouw |
| [additional/unit] | Home Loans | Poste Restante | Plot 10-F | |||
| [organization] | First National Bank | |||||
| [premises/building] | Punyu Complex | Onamulunga Communal Area | ||||
| [street or sub-locality] | 11 Mermaid Street | Olukondo Village | Section 13 | |||
| [locality] | Ocean View | ONETHINDI | Extension 3 | |||
| [p.o. box/private bag] | P.O. Box 999 | Private Bag 13678 | ||||
| [post office] | OKAHANDJA | WINDHOEK | KHOMASDAL | UIS | ONDANGWA | GOREANGAB |
| [post code] | 12004 | 10005 | 10011 | 13010 | 15002 | 10030 |
| [only if from abroad] | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA |
Former South West Africa post codes
Before independence in 1990, when the country was under South African administration, it formed part of that country's post code system, but following independence, use of post codes was discontinued.[2] South West Africa, including the enclave of Walvis Bay, was allocated the number range 9000–9299.[3]
P.O. Box 287 WINDHOEK 9100[4]
P.O. Box 44 SWAKOPMUND 9180[5]
P.O. Box 779 WALVIS BAY 9190[6]
However, the code 9000 was commonly used for all addresses for mail from or via South Africa.
Private Bag 13267 WINDHOEK 9000[7]
Private Bag 5017 SWAKOPMUND 9000[8]
P.O. Box 953 WALVIS BAY 9000[9]
Walvis Bay remained under South African administration until 1994.[10]
References
- ^ Namibian Post Code. Nampost. Retrieved on 9 January 2019.
- ^ The comprehensive handbook of the postmarks of German South West Africa, South West Africa, Namibia, Ralph F. Putzel, R.F. Putzel, 1991, page 173
- ^ South African Panorama – Volume 22, South African Information Service, 1977, page 9
- ^ South West Africa & Walvis Bay – Suidwes-Afrika & Walvisbaai, Department of Posts and Telecommunications, 1978, page iv
- ^ SWA Annual/SWA Jaarboek/SWA Jahrbuch, South West Africa Publications, Limited, 1977, page 80
- ^ The South African Shipping News and Fishing Industry Review, Volume 39, Thomson Newspapers, 1984, page 35
- ^ Africa's Gem, Department of Economic Affairs, South West Africa/Namibia, 1981, page 3
- ^ SWA Annual, South West Africa Publications, Limited, 1986, page 44
- ^ Monitoring in South African grasslands, M. T. Mentis, National Programme for Environmental Sciences (South Africa). Committee for Terrestrial Ecosystems, CSIR Foundation for Research Development, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1984, page 47
- ^ Walvis Bay: exclave no more, Ieuan Griffiths, Geography, Vol. 79, No. 4 (October 1994), page 354
