ZIP Codes

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ZIP Code, Now 50; Before July 1963 mail was largely sorted by street address. Notable ZIP Codes:

Highest..........................99950
Ketchikan, AK

Lowest...........................00501
IRS Service Center,
Holtsville, NY

Easy to remember..........12345
General Electric
Schenectady, NY

Source US Postal Service

ANNE R CARET AND PAUL TRAP, USA TODAY"

Note:
(a) The above appears on July 29, 2013, at page A1.
(b) ZIP code
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code
(The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the code in the postal address)
(c) Ketchikan, Alaska
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchikan,_Alaska
(the city "is named after Ketchikan Creek, which flows through the town. "Ketchikan" comes from the Tlingit name for the creek, Kitschk-hin, the meaning of which is unclear")
(d) Holtsville, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holtsville,_New_York
(the name of the hamlet was changed to Holtsville in 1860, in honor of US Postmaster General Joseph Holt)