{"id":4337,"date":"2011-01-23T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:36:19","slug":"the-zip-code-system-is-no-longer-strictly-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/the-zip-code-system-is-no-longer-strictly-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zip Code System is No Longer Strictly Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zip-code-unessecary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4338\" title=\"zip-code-unessecary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zip-code-unessecary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zip-code-unessecary.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zip-code-unessecary-340x335.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zip-code-unessecary-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zip-code-unessecary-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What the Numbers in the Zip Code Signify\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/what-the-zip-in-zip-code-stands-for-and-what-the-numbers-signify\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn What the Numbers in the Zip Code Signify<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ZIP code system was first introduced because the Postal Service was beginning to be overwhelmed with the volume of mail they needed to process in a timely manner, most of which originally were processed by hand.\u00a0 The ZIP code system made a handy way to increase efficiency in that way.\u00a0 However, only a few years after the ZIP code system was introduced in the 1960s, the Postal Service began using the MLOCR system for automatic sorting.\u00a0 Given the address, even without the ZIP code, the MLOCR system is almost always perfectly capable of assigning the ZIP+4 code to the address, with very little mail needing to be human-read to determine the correct address\/ZIP code.\u00a0 So in most cases, including the ZIP or ZIP+4 code with the written address doesn\u2019t really increase mail efficiency much at all as the Postal Service\u2019s initial scanning system can come up with those numbers for your written address on its own.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn What the Numbers in the Zip Code Signify Text Version The ZIP code system was first introduced because the Postal Service was beginning to be overwhelmed with the volume of mail they needed to process in a timely manner, most of which originally were processed by hand.\u00a0 The ZIP code system made [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1206],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-zip-code-necessity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}