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You can put just the zip and the P.O. box number and it'll get there.
The zip+4 uniquely identifies every address in the US. We're probably nearing a billion addresses, though, I wonder what happens after that?
Page seems to be a 404 now. Any chance of a new link?
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I hope you realize that it doesn't really cost few cents. The taxes paid by us keeps USPS running. FYI: USPS lost 2.8 billion dollars in 2008.
Yeah, but only recently. Up until about the mid 00s, they've been running a healthy profit of about a billion a year. But, since it's supposed to be run revenue neutral (i.e., no profit) it gets absorbed back into the general fed budget. Now that it's losing money, they have to cut back. No federal bailouts for a semi-federated body. Funny how that works.
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The zip+4 uniquely identifies every address in the US. We're probably nearing a billion addresses, though, I wonder what happens after that?
According to wikipedia, zip+4 does not uniquely identify single individuals unless they are high volume recipients.
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In Italy, you can't sent a package without tying a & & (* string around it.
Your comment triggered previously unsuspected knowledge of cartoon swearing, making me suspicious that your censoring is both too short and containing two ampersands next to each other, which just isn't on (apparently - who am I to argue with my subconscious?). On a closer look, one of your ampersands appears to be italicised, suggesting your original typing was two characters longer and more even, which would make i…
It has been fashionable to trash the post office (USPS) but growing up in a rural route area, I occasionally did a test by sending a letter to the grandparents with just the last name, the city name and the zip. Always got there. I probably could have just put the name, county and zip.
The editor of the local paper
Congleton
Apparently, it arrived at the offices of the Congleton Chronicle without an issue.
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I've heard that someone once addressed a letter to: HILL JOHN MASS And it got there. See if you can figure out the intended recipient - it took me a good half hour. Spoilers at http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bb_title/disp...
I once mailed a postcard from Honolulu addressed only to Michaelangelo McKasty Albany, New York and it never arrived. I find it highly unlikely there is more than one Michaelangelo McKasty in Albany. I assume the USPS clerks in Albany are somewhat more disenchanted with their jobs than the ones in Andover, and just threw the postcard away.
In my case, the town is much smaller, and pretty much everyone knew everyone.
It has been fashionable to trash the post office (USPS) but growing up in a rural route area, I occasionally did a test by sending a letter to the grandparents with just the last name, the city name and the zip. Always got there. I probably could have just put the name, county and zip.
You can put just the zip and the P.O. box number and it'll get there.