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# How to exclude postcodes or areas

The exclusion rules apply to a particular region. If you exclude a postcode for a particular region, you can still have that postcode applied in the inclusion for other regions.

There are three ways to exclude postcodes or areas in a region.

### 1. Simply not including it in the ‘Match field’

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This field contains any address matching rules that determine when this Region **should** be applied. For example, if you entered 1000, 3000, 4000, and 5000 as a rule into this field and a customer has the 2000 postcode, then the rates inside this region would not be considered a match for this postcode. Essentially, if an area or a group of postcodes is not included in the “Match Rules” field for the region, no rates  —from this region — will be offered for it.

### 2. Using the exclusion field.

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When the match field has a range applied, and you want to exclude a specific postcode from that range, you can use the ‘Exclusion field’. This field contains any address matching rules that determine when this postcode/s or area should not be applied. For example, if you entered 2000 as a rule into this “Exclusion rules” field and a customer has a postcode of 2000, then the rates on this region wouldn’t be available for the excluded code.

### 3. Excluding from catchall

If you want to exclude shipping from certain postcodes, but you also have configured a Region with a ‘catchall’ rule, the best way to make it work is by configuring a new shipping region, placing the postcodes in the match rule and simply not add any rates. 

You can read further information in this article about: [What does 'Catchall' mean and when should I use it?](https://support.postcodeshipping.com/en/article/what-does-catchall-mean-and-when-should-i-use-it-1xtn1lh/)