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A 1974 postage stamp encouraging people to use the ZIP Code on letters and parcels. A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan[ 1]) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly [ 2] ( zipping along) when senders use the ...
ZIP Code Tabulation Areas ( ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census and 5 year American Community Survey [1] datasets. This new entity was developed to overcome the difficulties in precisely ...
The SCF for the Davenport, Iowa area (527 and 528) is located in Rock Island, Illinois. [1] Five independent branches of Chicago were originally under the 606 prefix: Riverdale, Elmwood Park, Niles, Cicero, and Alsip. Before getting its own prefix with just one code, Yellowstone National Park was under the 830 range, with ZIP Code 83020.
NNNNN, NNNNN-NNNN. U.S. ZIP codes. ZIP codes 006XX for NW PR, 007XX for SE PR, in which XX designates the town or post office and 009XX for the San Juan Metropolitan Area, in which XX designates the area or borough of San Juan. The last four digits identify an area within the post office.
Created conflicts in area code regions that allowed seven-digit dialling and had been using numbers beginning in 988; a total of 82 area codes switched to ten-digit dialling as a result. 989: Michigan (Alpena, Mt. Pleasant, Bay City, Saginaw, Midland, Owosso, and a part of central Michigan) April 7, 2001: split of 517; 990–999
A sectional center facility (SCF) is a processing and distribution center (P&DC) of the United States Postal Service (USPS) that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes.
Map of LATAs in the US. Local access and transport area (LATA) is a term used in U.S. telecommunications regulation.It represents a geographical area of the United States under the terms of the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) entered by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Civil Action number 82-0192 or any other geographic area designated as a LATA in the ...
This makes the fastest-dialing area code 212 (5 total clicks), followed by 312 and 213 (6 clicks). The area code 605 is much slower than these at 21 clicks. Many large US cities generally had fast-dialing area codes with the middle digit 1. Touch-tone dialing, introduced later, eliminated the wait.