On July 1, 1963, the U.S. Post Office Department introduced the ZIP code program to get a handle on the heaping surplus of mail. Today, those five digits represent much more for American society. Back ...

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The USPS already works with local communities to resolve similar requests by allowing customers to use their preferred city ...

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, left, and two city letter carriers posing with Mr. Zip in 1963. (N/A/United States Postal Service.) Perspective by John Kelly While vacationing at his Texas ranch in ...

Green officials say the current system, which splits the city between multiple postal codes, creates tax collection problems ...