Postal Codes & Addresses in the Netherlands

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Postal Codes & Addresses in the Netherlands

The Dutch national postal service is TPG Post (in Dutch)

Post Offices

Post offices in the Netherlands offer a wide range of services: they sell stamps (zegels), telephone cards, insurance policies and concert tickets. Larger post offices also have money changing facilities.

Roadside mail boxes where letters are posted are orange.

In general post office hours are Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00. However, in Rotterdam and Amsterdam there are all-night post offices and some major towns have post offices that stay open late on Thursday or Friday night and open on Saturday mornings.

Dutch post offices often have a Postbank as well, which operates as a bank.

• Postbank
  Tel: 0900 1958
  Website (in Dutch)

Netherlands Postal Codes

Dutch postal codes are written as a sequence of four digits followed by two uppercase letters, for example 1234 AB. Until 2005 certain letters were not used for technical reasons (F, I, O, Q, U and Y), but to allow new combinations these letters are now used. For historical reasons the following combinations are not used: SS, SD and SA.

Here are two postcode finders to find addresses or postal codes in the Netherlands:

• To find an address or postal code with TNT: Click here (in Dutch)
• To find an address or post code with Postcode.nl: Click here (in English)

Dutch Addresses (how to read them)

Example:

• Boerhaavelaan 7,
  2500 DL Den Haag

The first line is the name of the street followed by the number. The first two digits of the postcode indicate a city and a region. The following two digits and letters indicate a range of house numbers usually on the same street. A postal code in the Netherlands usually covers eight single addresses.

Glossary of Postal Terms