{"id":492,"date":"2015-08-14T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T02:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2022-07-10T22:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T14:32:25","slug":"layang-layang-island-gets-a-post-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/layang-layang-island-gets-a-post-code","title":{"rendered":"Layang Layang Island Gets a Post Code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mets_dz_1308_p4_dz_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mets_dz_1308_p4_dz_3.jpg\" alt=\"The deep sea post box\" class=\"wp-image-495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mets_dz_1308_p4_dz_3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mets_dz_1308_p4_dz_3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mets_dz_1308_p4_dz_3-225x150.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, for those of us who still enjoy writing letters instead of just e-mail, now you can share your experience with family and friends via waterproof postcards stamped with a special postmark and Malaysia Book of Records logo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>The 88005 special post code symbolises Malaysia&#8217;s sovereignty over the remote island located 300km from Sabah or one hour by air from Kota Kinabalu.<br><br>Pos Malaysia acting chief executive officer Azlan Shahrim said 88 is the Sabah code while 5 refers to the Royal Malaysian Navy&#8217;s (RMN) Station Lima based in Layang-Layang.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Receiving handwritten notes and letters are so much more personal and satisfying don&#8217;t you think? Here&#8217;s the link that came out in <a title=\"Layang Layang Island Gets a Post Code\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/Metro\/Community\/2015\/08\/13\/Layanglayang-island-gets-a-post-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Star<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, for those of us who still enjoy writing letters instead of just e-mail, now you can share your experience with family and friends via waterproof postcards stamped with a special postmark and Malaysia Book of Records logo. The 88005 special post code symbolises Malaysia&#8217;s sovereignty over the remote island located 300km from Sabah or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[721,349,351,347],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiadivingvacation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}