#zipcodes — Public Fediverse posts
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Hype for the Future 258/284: ZIP Code Numering
Overview With the development of the postal system, in general ZIP codes today increase alphabetically in many suburban prefixes and in era of development and location in many inner-urban prefixes, with many lower codes within a prefix either early in the alphabet or closest to a central business district in question and many higher codes further removed. Also of interest are geographically-defined ZIP code prefixes.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/hype-for-the-future-258-284-zip-code-numering/
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ZIP codes were born to save the wartime postal service — now they reveal who you are
Those 5 digits you type every time you shop online were created to rescue the postal service during wartime. Now they tell strangers who you are.
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Hype for the Future 128C: Logistics for the Middletown Area, Ohio
Introduction The City of Middletown is located in the northeastern portion of Butler County, Ohio, to the northeast of the City of Hamilton but more directly to the east of the City of Oxford and between Cincinnati to the south and Dayton to the north. Logistical Information According to the United States Postal Service (USPS), the City of Middletown spans ZIP codes 45042 and 45044. Additionally, however, is ZIP code 45005, though this ZIP code is primarily associated with the nearby […] -
Had to remind some folks today that making postal codes mandatory is not optimal.
They come in flavours of 3-10 numeric characters (which you can't treat as numbers) or 6-8 alphanumeric strings. And some countries/territories just don't use them at all.
Like people's names, best not to even try.
Image by Stadscykel - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15948580
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Back in 1993, German post introduced 5-digit ZIP codes (or Postleitzahlen in German) to replace the 4-digit ones. For spreading the news and advertising the change, they used "Rolf", a comic style yellow hand with sunglasses. This is one of the Rolf stickers from around 1992 on my floppy disk box for the Amiga I was using at the time. #Nostalgia #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #GermanPost #ZIPCodes #Postleitzahlen
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This New Year, resolve to stop analyzing data at the Zip Code level. It’s almost never the right scale! I feel like I get more militant about this every year, but it’s one of those things like NHST: it’s everywhere and it’s almost always wrong, even when it happens to correctly identify a real pattern.
#spatialanalysis #zcta #zipcodes