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Invalid zip code error is displayed when attempting to process a payment from your customer with a billing address outside the U.S. They may have a ZIP code (or Province code) that includes characters that do not meet the U.S. 5 digit standard.

In India, there is no ZIP code. It's have PIN code (postal index number) to identify a location, and which is 6 digit code. As for example, 700001 is the pin code of kolkata GPO. India has no 5 digit zipcode India has the 6 digit postal code.

Zip Code? validation definition: The ZIP Code? in the address accurately refers to the city or town listed in the address. The address follows the correct ZIP Code? format, including the ZIP + 4®

This is because ZIP code boundaries are based on mail routes and delivery points rather than geographic factors. The U.S. Post Office Department, predecessor to USPS, developed a zoning address system in 1943 as a way to make sorting and delivery of mail easier.

There are four primary types of ZIP codes: PO Box, Unique, Military, and Standard.

The four extra numbers are added after a hyphen to complete the ZIP+4. So what do the extra numbers mean? These last 4 digits represent specific delivery routes within delivery areas. This extra detail means an even more precise matching to a more granular level.

Valid US ZIP Code Pattern US ZIP code (U.S. postal code) allows both the five-digit and nine-digit (called ZIP + 4) formats. E.g. a valid postal code should match 12345 and 12345-6789, but not 1234, 123456, 123456789, or 1234-56789.

ZIP Codes are numbered with the first digit representing a certain group of U.S. states, the second and third digits together representing a region in that group (or perhaps a large city) and the fourth and fifth digits representing a group of delivery addresses within that region.

There are four primary types of ZIP codes: PO Box, Unique, Military, and Standard. PO boxes are located at the post office itself; unique codes refer to individual addresses; US military bases overseas have a domestic mailing address; and standard codes designate everything else (i.e. the normal ones).

To develop this nationwide code, the Post Office Department looked to a sorting system that it had started using in a limited capacity in 1943. This system divided up large cities into multiple 2-digit postal zones, which were written by mailers in the lower line of addresses and called local zone numbers.