Check for Zip/Postal Code Updates

Concepts

When provided with an appropriate set of zip codes/postal codes, VSys can use these to determine, from a zip/postal code, its city, state/province, county and country, as well as know how far it is from other zip/postal codes. Normally VSys does not ship with a populated table of these, but Bespoke provides them for free on its website.

Before You Begin

You must have a live Internet connection for this feature to work.

Steps in This Task

To update your "zips" table, where these values are stored,

  1. Click on the Check for zip/postal code updates link on the Administrator tools panel, and VSys will connect to the bespoke.com website to check for updates.

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  2. Click on any of these updates, then on the Install button.
  3. VSys will download the complete update, then apply it to your "zips" table.

The Canadian postal codes database is huge - almost 200MB of data - and so non-Canadian users will probably not benefit from downloading and installing this file. The United States file is substantially smaller, so Canadian organizations with cross-border traffic and mailings may benefit from having both tables installed.

This update can be applied while other users are actively working in VSys.