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 ...

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

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A letter without a ZIP code may not reach its intended destination. That is because of the way addresses are read by automated postal systems. Rules that are taken for granted when people send mail ...

Today on All Things Considered, NPR's Andrea Seabrook reported that the U.S. Postal Service plans to launch next month a national "Portable ZIP Codes" program. Under the program, Americans would be ...

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

Currently, Northlake falls within three ZIP codes, according to the U.S. Postal Service: 76226 in the Argyle area, 76247 in ...