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The familiar five-digit number was part of a nationwide effort to modernize the mail.

Mr. Zip, a gangly cartoonish figure with wide friendly eyes and a neat blue mail carrier's uniform, emerged fifty years ago to help the U.S. Postal Service promote its newest idea: five numbers added ...

On July 1, 1963, the U.S. Post Office Department introduced the ZIP code program to get a handle on the heaping surplus of mail. Today, those five digits represent much more for American society. Back ...

Nowadays, people don't send letters to one another when they want to catch up. You may get holiday or birthday cards from your parents, grandparents or other family members and friends, but for the ...

Back in the 1960s, there was a heaping surplus of mail in the U.S. Post offices were struggling to keep up with deliveries. According to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, mail volume reached ...