The SK postcode area, also known as the Stockport postcode area,[2] is a group of nineteen postcode districts in England, within eleven post towns.
These cover south-east Greater Manchester (including Stockport, Cheadle, Hyde, Stalybridge and Dukinfield), parts of east Cheshire (including Macclesfield, Wilmslow and Alderley Edge), north-west Derbyshire (including Buxton, High Peak and Glossop) and a small part of north Staffordshire.
Mail for the SK postcode area is processed at Manchester Mail Centre, along with mail for the M, BL and OL postcode areas.
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: The SK22 and SK23 districts and the HIGH PEAK post town were formed in 1996, out of the SK12 district and the STOCKPORT post town.
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