You can often send items through the mail when you have a limited address, but if you don’t have a postal code, you’re going to have a hard time.

If you need to find a postal code Canada, simply use Canada Post to help you with that information. First go to the Canada Post website at www.Canadapost.ca and click on “find a postal code” which is one of the tabs at the top of the page. Look to the far left and you’ll find it. The other tabs include things like “find a rate”, “ship-in-a-click”, “find a post office”, and “track”. Make sure you click “find a postal code” or you might get yourself confused quickly.

Click on “find a postal code” and you will see a screen that asks you for a number of pieces of information. If you are able to provide a street number, a street name, the city and the province, then the website will be able to deliver to you the postal code of that address.

It’s important that you always include a postal code on your mail because that’s how it’s sorted. It’s sorted first by postal code, and later by province, city and street address. Without a postal code, the mail will be returned to you. If you don’t have the postal code information, this is the best way to find it.

Sometimes you’ll put in a postal code and the site will return to you the message that the address can’t be found or that the address is invalid. In that case, you’ll often be given an alternate address and you should choose that address. Sometimes the address must be entered into the site in a very exact way and the site will prompt you for what that exact version is. Put the address in the way the site has requested and then see if the postal code that comes up is accurate to you.

If you are missing a postal code, don’t ignore that important piece of information. Even if you are only sending something to the next city, if you fail to put the proper postal code on your parcel or letter, you will likely find it returned to you and that’s likely not the result you are looking for.