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For example: 94062 can be either Woodside or Redwood City or Emerald Hills.
Yup, here the USPS response to 94062 https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupResultsAction!input.actio...
It returns a bunch of other cities as acceptable, but those are the ones that are actually located in that zip code. I'm curious as to what all of this returned data actually means.
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My understanding is the whole point of a zipcode is that city and state on a mailer don't matter at all. Doesn't zipcode go to a specific post office?
Depends on if you mean ZIP or ZIP + 4 or ZIP + 4 + delivery point. ZIP alone will route to a post office, but here are a significant number of areas where city is needed to further disambiguate due to duplicate street addresses in a delivery zone. Now, they obviously try to avoid this, but it still happens. ZIP+4 would obviate the need for city, state. ZIP + 4 + delivery point would obviate the need for everything :)…
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The use of the term "state" for a subnational division, roughly akin to a Canadian "province", is a different meaning with the same spelling. Fun fact, Ireland has provinces (4 of them). However they aren't used for addresses, only for sports or cultural reasons. So Dublin (the city) is in the State of Ireland, and the Province of Lenister. Sometimes the web forms will have a field saying "State/Province", and I wond…
The Government in Ireland is currently in the process of introducing postcodes http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Communications/Postal/Postcodes.htm