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Canada does not use zip codes in addresses. Canada uses postal codes similar to the UK. All postal codes in BC start with V. An example would be V5Z 4N6.

In the United States, we use just numbers, but some other countries also use letters. Since our caller works for the U.S. government, and ZIP codes are a government thing, I checked the US Printing Office style guide first. It recommends "ZIP Code."

Stores want your ZIP code because, combined with your name from your credit card, they can use it to find out other information about you from commercial databases, like your full mailing address.So essentially, retailers are seizing the opportunity to potentially make money by asking for your ZIP when you checkout.

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.

Being in Canada as opposed to the United States, we have postal codes as opposed to zip codes (more or less the same thing in their use), which use three letters and three numbers, (letter-number-letter number-letter-number) as opposed to five numbers in a zip code.

Alone, your ZIP code might not be of much value all by itself, but criminals will take that information and post it on underground sites where they buy, sell and trade bunches of personal information. From those sites, criminals can purchase enough of your personal information to use it for fraud.

ZIP codes are five digits long. The first digit is assigned to a broad geographical area of the United States, ranging from zero in the Northeast to nine in the West. The next two digits pinpoint population concentrations and sectional centers accessible to common transportation networks.