To identify the different areas in the United States.
A Zip Code (named for Zone Improvement Plan) identifies a specific area of the country numerically, without regard to duplicate street names, city names, or state identifiers. The first five digits typically define a delivery area or post office. The extra digits (Zip+4) identify a single specific delivery point: a business, house, mailbox, post office box, or apartment box. Barcodes and high-speed computer sorting can take a letter directly to the point where it is going to be delivered (by a letter carrier or clerk), in some cases without the address having ever been seen by human eyes!
The post office had the opportunity to computerize and mechanize mail sorting.
The problem was the many ways an address can be written and the bewildering number of different spellings, repeated addresses, and all sorts of other complications required a system of addressing that was universal
So the Zip code ( Postal code in Canada) was created
Zip codes are used to sort physical mail for delivery to each home. The more zip codes that are used means that mail will be sorted more accurately and mail will arrive at its destination faster.
Germany was the first country to introduce a postal code system, in 1941. The United Kingdom followed in 1959 and the United States in 1963.
It was invented by George De Mistral in order to streamline mail deliveries.
to know where places can be found and to make it esier to mail
The origin of zip code is based in the beginning times of the United States Postal Service because the USPS needed to have a way to distinguish one town from another.
Robert Moon in 1963.
5 digit in 1963
Zip Codes are only used in the United States. There are no international zip codes.
Numbers are used in zip codes.
27 zip codes
OK. States don't have Zip Codes. Cities have Zip Codes. You can get the complete list of ZIP codes in California under different Cities from here: http://www.zip4all.com/california/ca/ .
There are approximately 43000 zip codes. Number of ZIP codes periodically changes. For example, around 200 zip codes were added in the U.S. in 2006-2007.
Yes. Japan has zip codes just like we do but their zip codes are seven numbers long as opposed to us, where we just have six digit zip codes. Below are some examples
For Denmark zip codes see the related link.
There are approximately 43000 zip codes in the USA
33 zip codes
The zip codes are: 95380, 95381, 95382.
Zip codes for Northern California are: 95350,95355,95356,95367,95361,95358. These zip codes cover cities like , Modesto, Riverbank, Oakdale.
Jamaica does not use Zip Codes