Mã Bưu Điện

Mã Bưu Điện (Tiếng Mẹđẻ: 馬郵電; Postal Code) is the Qwehyongine postal code system. It is officially abbreviated to MBĐ but is often written incorrectly as MBD. As part of the modernization that took place after the Qwehyongine Spring in 1942 and the takeover by the republican government, the President Xầm Đào Nhiếp ordered for a new postal code system. Formulated and put into place by the Qwehyongine Republican Postal Service in 1943 using 1 alphabetic character and 4 numerical digits, it was expanded in 1999 under President Hoàng Lưu to use three alphabetic character and five numerical digits.

A full postcode (Mã bưu đầy đủ, 馬郵菭都; Full Postal Code) is a postal code that refers to an entire Region, which uses a revised version of the 1942 system with only two numeric digits rather than four. A Sub-Postal Code (Mã bưu chính nhỏ, 馬郵正𡮈; lit. Small Postal Code) is a code that refers to a Prefecture that uses the 1992 system. Full postcodes are only to refer to Prefecture Postal Centers, and are normally not used for sending parcels out. Despite being called a Prefecture System, the Small Postal Code delivers to Communes.

The structure of a full postcode of the revised 1942 system uses a single alphabetic character. The single alphabetic character is the first character of that Region. However it is mandated normally that the postal service replace the alphabetic character with the first Tiếng Mẹđẻ character of a region's name e.g. T turns to 徵 (Trung Metropolitan Region), L turns to 老 (Lão Region). The alphabetic character/Tiếng Mẹđẻ character is then followed by two numbers indicating the Prefecture, specifically which Prefecture Postal Distribution Center. If two regions share the same first character, the two numbers will indicate which Prefecture it is indicating e.g. T01/徵01 and T16/守16 with 徵 referring to the Trung Metropolitan Region and 守 referring to the Thủ Region.

The structure of a Sub-Postal Code of the 1992 system uses three alphabetic characters. The three alphabetic characters are the first three characters of the Prefecture's name. Unlike the revised 1942 system that substitutes alphabetic characters with Tiếng Mẹđẻ characters, the alphabetic characters are normally not substituted to prevent confusion between the two postal codes. The next two digits indicate the Ward, in which the final three digits indicate the Commune.

Normally, every Ward or Commune will have their own Postal Distribution Center, as it is seen as bad luck to have non-paper items appear in Orthodox Qwehyongine Culture on one's property that are unnatural or man-made without a person's presence. The only heterodox exception to this is the Trieu Island Region, which does not follow this custom. It is also against the Republican Postal Service rules to use a specific address to deliver, and specific addresses are used only for verification purposes. Universities will also normally be given their own communes in which the state provides a Postal Distribution Center to the university. Despite the previous custom being considered unorthodox, this is the case in the Trieu Island Region, with communes that have universities in their designated borders following Orthodox Qwehyongine Culture with non-paper items appearing that are unnatural or man-made without a person's presence.

For a brief period in 1944, after the Qwehyongine Spring, Trieu Island had a separate postal system that was used in-conjunction with the 1942 system. However the Nhiếp Guarantee, the Trieu Island government became more integrated with the Qwehyongine government. During this integration, the Trieu Island Postal Code System was scrapped. While talks have been proposed to bring it back, it is still seen as a violation of the Nhiếp Guarantee.

Formatting

Revised 1942 Region System

Overview

The Revised 1942 Region System that is used for postal codes are alphanumberic, and are changed a Tiếng Mẹđẻ-numeric system. The numeric system is non-variable in length except under certain conditions. When transferring between Prefecture Postal Centers, this system will be used, and two tickets will be issued: one containing the point of origin's Regional Post Code and the receiving Regional Postal Code. In the following example it will cover both into one table.

POSTCODE
Delivering PPC Code		Receiving PPC Code
Region	PPC	Region	PPC
T	07	Q	15

Postal Codes of Regions

There are a total of 12 Regions that are recognized by the Qwehyongine Republican Postal Service.