After 28 years without a postal code system in Namibia, the national postal service provider NamPost introduced new postal codes in December 2018.[1]
They consist of five digits, where the first two indicate the region, the last two the post office and the third digit is always a 0.
Address format examples
| Details (as variables) |
P.O. Box | Private Bag | Postal Storage (poste restante) |
Physical Address (urban areas) |
Physical Address (rural areas) |
Physical Address (informal areas) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [addressee] | Mr G. Bailey | Ms Virginia Freeman | Mr Wilmarc LEWIES | Nangula Hamuteny | Ms Rosalia Iwata | P Rossouw |
| [additional/unit] | Home Loans | Poste Restante | Plot 10-F | |||
| [organization] | First National Bank | |||||
| [premises/building] | Punyu Complex | Onamulunga Communal Area | ||||
| [street or sub-locality] | 11 Mermaid Street | Olukondo Village | Section 13 | |||
| [locality] | Ocean View | Onethindi | Extension 3 | |||
| [p.o. box/private bag] | P.O. Box 999 | Private Bag 13678 | ||||
| [post office] | OKAHANDJA | WINDHOEK | KHOMASDAL | UIS | ONDANGWA | GOREANGAB |
| [post code] | 12004 | 10005 | 10011 | 13010 | 15002 | 10030 |
| [only if from abroad] | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA | NAMIBIA |