Title: Shipping zone question
Last modified: July 20, 2026

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# Shipping zone question

 *  [piiather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piiather/)
 * (@piiather)
 * [3 days, 11 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shipping-zone-question-2/)
 * How do I set up a shipping zone that excludes specific postal codes within a 
   country rather than the whole country? Need to exclude a couple of remote regions
   with higher courier fees.

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 *  Plugin Support [shahzeen(woo-hc)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shahzeenfarooq/)
 * (@shahzeenfarooq)
 * [3 days, 10 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shipping-zone-question-2/#post-18970049)
 * Hi [@piiather](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piiather/)!
 * I understand you’re looking to exclude a few remote postal codes from your standard
   shipping rates and charge a higher courier fee for those regions.
 * You can achieve this by creating **two shipping zones**:
    1. **Create a shipping zone for the remote postal codes.**
    2.  - Select the country for this shipping zone.
        - Click **Limit to specific ZIP/postcodes** and enter the postal codes (or 
          postcode patterns) for the remote regions.
        - Add the shipping method with the higher courier fee for this zone.
        - Make sure this shipping zone is placed **above** your general shipping zone.
    3. **Create a second shipping zone for the entire country.**
    4.  - Select the same country.
        - Do **not** specify any ZIP/postcodes for this zone.
        - Add your standard shipping method and rates.
 * WooCommerce matches shipping zones from **top to bottom**. As soon as it finds
   the first shipping zone that matches the customer’s address, it uses that zone
   and does not continue checking the remaining zones. By placing the remote postal
   code zone above the general country zone, customers in those regions will receive
   the higher shipping rate, while all other customers in the country will receive
   the standard rate.
 * For more details you can use this guide:[https://woocommerce.com/document/setting-up-shipping-zones/](https://woocommerce.com/document/setting-up-shipping-zones/)
 * I hope this helps! Let us know if you have any other questions.

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 * Last reply from: [shahzeen(woo-hc)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shahzeenfarooq/)
 * Last activity: [3 days, 10 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shipping-zone-question-2/#post-18970049)
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