However, Canada Post in all its wisdom reserved "H0H 0H0" for Santa's personal use, thereby making a geographic exception for Kris Kringle. "H0H 0H0" has been Santa's very own postal code since 1982.

"When you make a query to Geocoder containing, for example, this information '1435 Prince of Wales, Ottawa, ON K2C 1N5,' we then extract the postal code 'K2C 1N5' and insert it into the database ...

Canada Post has publicly released a chunk of its postal code database, even as it continues to pursue a lawsuit against a small start-up for also giving away postal… ...

What is a credit card postal code? Postal codes in Canada are a six-character string consisting of three letters and three digits. For example, the postal code for the CN Tower in Toronto is M5V 3L9.

Canada Post is not trying to claim copyright over individual postal codes. Instead, it claims GeoCoder is infringing on its overall database, which contains information about roughly 890,000 codes.

Using Google’s Fusion Tables mapping tool, we are able to map income across the country in 1,576 postal areas. Scroll down for interactive maps. READ MORE: Explore our detailed census tract ...