posted on August 22, 2005 06:45:17 PM
I sold a widget to a lady in Dumfries,VA. She put in her Zip Code 22026-xxxx. When I went into P/P to print postage & label, I was refused because it wasn't the correct Zip. So I had to go to the PO & found out it was 22025-xxxx. She is arguing with me about this & wanted it sent to her office. Told her sorry, but I had already mailed it. Decided to check agsain, went to USPS.com & looked it up & as you might expect the PO was right. I emailed her & told her to check with her local PO. I wonder how she has been getting mail with a wrong Zip Code. She just wouldn't beleve me.
Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine
[ edited by sanmar on Aug 22, 2005 06:45 PM ]
posted on August 22, 2005 07:23:52 PM
In most small towns, the main post office zip code will be one digit (the last) different from the rest of the town. Every town has at least 2 zip codes if they have a main P.O. If sending to a small town, it usually doesn't make any difference which you use, because the sorters only have two choices, a P.O. box or a street address, and they will make sure it gets to the right place. It's the larger cities where you run the risk of a misdelivery or a return.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on August 22, 2005 11:44:15 PM
Thanks for the headsup, I never thought about that. I know that here in Santa Maria, there are 5 Zip codes & 1 is the PO.
posted on August 23, 2005 12:18:35 AM
The village I lived in before moving to California must have been small, because we had only one Zip Code for both PO Boxes and regular mail.
Ah, only to find the peace and solitude of an Adirondack village here in S. California. I bet there is more people in one square block here, than in that little village.
But then, there is no ice, freezing temperatures, windshields to be scrapped, and mounds of snow to be shoveled, in S. California.
