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From: stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Re: Cashier wants zipcode?
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 10:25:11 EST
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> what their street address is.  They are just Rural Route 1, White Marsh, MD
> 21162.  This causes some problems for the fire department, except for the
> fact that the phone company relays the address up on the ALI screens to the
> 911 operators.  The phone companies computers always manage to get a street
> address (and a nine digit zip code, this is how I found out what mine was).

      Some people in really rural areas REALLY don't have
street addresses. Some people in N.J. don't have house
numbers, only a street name.  (We don't have a house
number).

> The market research company I used to work for needed something for
> geographic districts back before their were zipcodes.  The first two digits
> in their 5-digit code is the state number (states are numbered sequentially
> in alphabetical order, except that Alaska and Hawaii are 49 and 50, placing
> this is the proper time perspective) and followed by three digits of within
> state district.  Problem was, that these had to be looked up by hand.
  
         So how come N.J. has 07 and 08, while California
has 09? Call that alphbetical? And NYC has 100. Conn is 03
and Maine is 04. Strange alphabet.
-- 
whuxl!stu16
(mamawitch)