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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Re: Cashier wants zipcode?
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 23:36:05 EST
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> > 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.
> -- 
Come'on READ PLEASE.  The code that I am describing is the special pre-zipcode
code used by ARBITRON called an ARBSU.

-Ron