what's the meaning of "the safe confines of her postcode" in this sentence?

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She’d gone to change a pair of trousers and, distracted by my shifting position, found it impossible to choose between patched denims or velvet flares, and fearful that my place of birth would be a department store, she made a staggered journey back to the safe confines of her postcode, where her waters broke just as the heavens opened.

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@kkfengdao,

I suspect it means she went home.

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@kkfengdao,

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the safe confines of her postcode

The area where she lives, where she feels safe.

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

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the safe confines of her postcode

The area where she lives, where she feels safe.

In Britain, every postal address has a postcode.

For example my postcode is BS8 3KV

BS tells you it's Bristol, 2 tells you which area, 3 which district within that area, KV is a "postcode unit" within the BS8 3 district. There could be AA to ZZ postcode units. (Some letters are not used). The V is shared by around 10 houses so the full postcode refers to a small neighbourhood.

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