Correos Begins
Implementation of New
Address System
Beginning today mailing
a letter to Vázquez de
Coronado and Moravia
will include the new
postal code in the
address as part of the
Correos de Costa Rica
(post office) plan to
change the addressing
system to allow a more
exact location of every
house or commercial
building by
standardizing addresses.
Giovanni Campos, head of
the department of
Distribución de Correos
- mail distribution -
said that the post
office will keep the
traditional addressing
system for some time,
slowly incorporating the
new system.
The traditional system
is one of reference
points that indicates
the general locality of
the address, while the
new coded system
specifies the street and
avenue, house number,
district and province in
the address.
"The transformation
stage of addresses is
slow", said Campos.
Once these two areas are
codified, Correos plans
the same for Goicoechea
and Tibás as it
continues in its plan to
codify the entire
country.
For some the new system
is much more complicated
as they will need to
know the street and
avenue number, which
many do not know,
especially due to the
lack of street signs,
which the Correos plans
to install as part of
their program.
The change was announced
last March.
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