After 28 years without a postal code system in

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, the national postal service provider

NamPost NamPost is the national postal service of Namibia. It has 743 employees and reserves of N$ 2.51 million. The current CEO of NamPost is Festus Hangula. History The first postal services in then South West Africa started in 1814 with the deplo ...

introduced new postal codes in December 2018. They consist of five digits, where the first two indicate the

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, the last two the post office and the third digit is always a 0. ''Address format examples''

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.

South West Africa South West Africa ( af, Suidwes-Afrika; german: Südwestafrika; nl, Zuidwest-Afrika) was a territory under South African administration from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia. It bordered Angola (Portuguese colony before 1 ...

, including the enclave of

Walvis Bay Walvis Bay ( en, lit. Whale Bay; af, Walvisbaai; ger, Walfischbucht or Walfischbai) is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies. It is the second largest city in Namibia and the largest coastal city in the country. The ci ...

, was allocated the number range 9000–9299.''South African Panorama'' – Volume 22
South African Information Service, 1977, page 9 P.O. Box 287 WINDHOEK 9100 P.O. Box 44 SWAKOPMUND 9180 P.O. Box 779 WALVIS BAY 9190 However, the code 9000 was commonly used for all addresses for mail from or via South Africa. Private Bag 13267 WINDHOEK 9000 Private Bag 5017 SWAKOPMUND 9000 P.O. Box 953 WALVIS BAY 9000''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 remained under South African administration until 1994.Walvis Bay: exclave no more
Ieuan Griffiths, ''Geography'', Vol. 79, No. 4 (October 1994), page 354

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Postal system of Namibia