Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mhuxj.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!mhuxj!presley From: presley@mhuxj.UUCP (Joe Presley) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: ZIP code -> city name blues Message-ID: <1229@mhuxj.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 16:33:42 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxj.1229 Posted: Thu Mar 8 16:33:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 07:07:34 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 15 Any of you been bitten by companies which ignore the city/town name that you live in but use the USPS' ZIP code to city name data base? ample, I placed an order with Penney's and gave my mailing address as Warren, NJ 07060. Since Warren and Watchung are considered by the USPS to be "too small" to have their own ZIPs, we share a ZIP code with North Plainfield. (Warren's "branch" office is larger than many "main" post to find the street in North Plainfield. Another problem I can see with having the same ZIPs is that if ZIP codes are used to determine risks, the rates can be affected by higher crime and auto accident statistics in the larger city. -- Joe Presley (mhuxj!presley, ihnp4!j.presley)