Postal codes were introduced in the UK in 1966, yet Hong Kong never adopted the system. Photo: Sam Tsang

Outside In by David Dodwell

Hong Kong missed out on this wonderful 1960s technology, and we keep paying for that mistake

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City’s contrarian approach has seen it opt out of a system that everyone else believes is useful

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Published: 1:18am, 10 Jun, 2016

Updated: 2:54pm, 20 Jul, 2018

Postal codes were introduced in the UK in 1966, yet Hong Kong never adopted the system. Photo: Sam Tsang

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David Dodwell is the executive director of the Hong Kong-APEC Trade Policy Study Group, a trade policy think tank.