July 27, 2023 The ZIP Code was launched 60 years ago this month as part of a program of improvements to increase postal delivery speed. At the time, Americans were already struggling to adapt to three-digit area codes for long-distance telephone calls, so promoting the five-digit ZIP (short for Zone Improvement Plan) Code was a…
Objective Our objective was to evaluate the accuracy of Postal Service “zone”-based postage rates. These rates apply to select mail products including Priority Mail, Bound Printed Matter, Parcel Select, First Class Package Service, and Periodicals. The total volume of competitive and market dominant mail that included zone pricing was 10.1 billion of the 142.4 billion…
You see ZIP Codes every day, but how much do you know about them? “The list” is here to help you sort it all out. 1. “ZIP” stands for “Zoning Improvement Plan.” The five-digit codes were introduced in 1963 and assigned to every address in the nation to better sort and deliver mail. 2. Mr….
By Edgar B. Herwick III – July 3, 2015 We all have one, we know it by heart, and we share it with our neighbors. But chances are you haven’t thought that much about one ubiquitous part of American life — the ZIP Code. We all know about the middle-class and suburban boom in the…
