Why do you have zip codes?

Answer 1

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!

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

It was invented by George De Mistral in order to streamline mail deliveries.

Answer 6

to know where places can be found and to make it esier to mail

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

Robert Moon in 1963.

Answer 9

5 digit in 1963