This update to the book Global Source Book for Address Data
Management has been released (5th November 2002) as an Adobe Acrobat
file. The following chapters and data have been updated:
World postbox formats: Finland: corrected; Spain:
Basque version added.
World address formats: Niger: moved to new
format 118.
World postal code formats: modifed for Cape Verde and
Sudan; added for Cayman Islands and Macao.
Mail return codes - some added
Angola: current affairs situation altered.
Azerbaijan: additional patronymic transliteration
given.
Bahrain: official country name updated.
Belize: telephone number format added.
Canada: new province name and province postal code
information provided; map altered with new province name.
Cape Verde:new postal code information added.
Congo: current affairs situation updated.
Czech Republic: regions names list corrected
East Timor: independence date added; official name
altered; ISO codes altered; Administrative districts section added.
Finland: postbox form corrected.
Germany: personal names section - information on given
name law provided.
India: region names list transliteration corrections;
tables of postal codes per state added.
Ivory Coast: current affairs section added.
Kazakhstan: region names list transliteration
corrections.
Moldova: region names list transliteration
corrections.
Niger: new example address format given; postal code
information updated
Niue: official country name updated.
Romania: postal codes information expanded to include
commonly used older formats.
Russia: additional personal name information added.
Senegal: postal code introduction information added.
Somalia: offical country name updated.
Spain: Basque postbox version added.
Sudan: postal code format information corrected;
example address format corrected.
Tunisia: Governorates list corrected.
Turkey: languages section altered.
Uganda: regional names list corrected.
United Arab Emirates: emirate list transliteration
corrected.
United States of America: additional address format
information given.
Bibliography: updated.
Previous versions:
2002-1
2001-2
2001-1
2000-2
2000-1
1999-3