The Saudi Standards Commission has approved the procedures followed by the Saudi Post and has made them the mandatory standards for the numbering of buildings and establishments in the Kingdom. These standards will now be applied in all provinces, cities and villages in the Kingdom and are the first of their kind in Gulf and Arab countries. The approval was made after the commission formed a committee which prepared the technical regulations for these standards. The committee was formed by several government sectors, namely the Ministry of Interior represented by the National Information Center, Ministry of Higher Education represented by King Abdul Aziz University, Ministry of Rural and Municipal Affairs represented by the Holy City Mayoralty in addition to two representatives from the private sector and others from the commission and the Saudi Post. “The main reason behind developing a united national numbering system for postal addressing is to help achieve sustainable development and to contribute to the development of e-government,” said Majed Aal Ismail, head of the Technical Committee for standardization in a media release sent to Saudi Gazette. He said that postal addresses are one of the main elements in the development of the government's electronic transactions and national infrastructure. “It is the modern way to locate addresses quickly and easily which different sectors can use to locate places,” said Aal Ismail. He said that the Saudi Post is keen to use the latest geographic technologies in creating a united addressing system. He explained that the national united numbering system for addresses which has been developed by the Saudi Post is entirely dependent on geographical information.
