Saturday, January 7, 2012

Why can there be one Zip Code for two areas?

The zip code for where I live, according to addresses in the area and the USPS zip code finder thing, works for two alternate names of the exact same area. I could give my address as being in either of two cities. Why is this? Is there a preferable one to use? (I like the one that I haven't been using better).|||Zip codes usually define a geographic space which towns and cities are on. Unfortunately, sometime boarder disputes between towns do not fall along zip code boundaries. Sometimes towns are absorbed by bigger cities and the old name for the city pops up from time to time.





To get an official ruling go to your local post master and which is the propper city to use. Then ask if there is any reason why you couldn't use the name you want to use.|||I guess you live in the USA.





Here in the UK we have a similar arrangement using a postal code. The UK Royal Mail has a thing called a PAF (Postal Address File) which contains the preferred address of everywhere in the country. If you use the correct address as per the file, your mail is more likely to get delivered correctly, and if you are a corporate user, you get better postal discounts.|||91306 is for Winnetka and Canoga Park California, 91331 is for Arleta and Pacoima California,and 91342 is for Lake View Terrace and Sylmar California. Finally 91401 can be viewed as Van Nuys or Valley Glen in California. So the answer is YES.|||Maybe one city's outer limit grew to include the other's without


incorporating it, or butts up against it only divided by a street.


Your regular carrier should have no difficulty getting your mail


to you, but thier substitute may. Most P.O.'s now have machine


sorting by route, is yours large enough to have this?

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