Nokia Here Geocoder API - Partial postalcode search - here-api

We are using Geocoder API from Nokia Here maps and we are trying to search an address from a partial postalcode (we'd like using 'begins with' partial postalcode).
We are using this:
http://geocoder.cit.api.here.com/6.2/geocode.xml?postalcode=0400&country=ES&gen=5&app_id=DemoAppId01082013GAL&app_code=AJKnXv84fjrb0KIHawS0Tg
With 4 digit postalcode search we are obtaining results but if we search by 3 digits, we are getting no results:
http://geocoder.cit.api.here.com/6.2/geocode.xml?postalcode=040&country=ES&gen=5&app_id=DemoAppId01082013GAL&app_code=AJKnXv84fjrb0KIHawS0Tg
Is there any other way to do this?
Any help would be great!
Thanks in advance,
Antonio Sanchez

You are correct in that 3 digits is considered to be insufficient infromation to obtain a result.
I guess that If Spanish Postal Codes are purely numeric, you could make ten requests and amalgmate the results:
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http://geocoder.cit.api.here.com/6.2/geocode.xml?postalcode=0401&country=ES&gen=5&app_id=XXX&app_code=XXX
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