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P.L.M.
ALPHA-NUMERIC LANGUAGE

CEDEX VARIANT

In order to facilitate delivery to companies receiving large volumes of mail, a system known as

CEDEX (Courrier d'Entreprise a Distribution Exceptionnelle) was launched on 1 October 1966.

Initially on an experimental basis with only 18 participating companies in the Paris region, the
scheme was gradually extended throughout France. Specific postcodes were not allocated to
the registered companies until 1972 when each received its personal five figure numeric code.

joint fran9ais " Rf'.'L IJLIQ
~ F" A~CAI
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• 30
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S J 1856

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S.E.M.G.R de Clermont-Ferrand

64-66, avenue de !'Union Sovietique
BP 231

63007 CLERMONT-FERRAND CEDEX 1

Being an alpha-numeric language, the c
P.L.M. programme was restricted to
identifying CEDEX addresses with a less L
specific code which comprised the
departement number, the first letter of E
the town and a repeated digit. In this
case the last three digits of the code R
63007 have been replaced by the letter
C for Clermont-Ferrand and 22. M

Toulouse to a CEDEX registered 0
company in Clermont-Ferrand
29 November 1973 N
-T
2 2 -- 3 6
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