Mr. ZIP, informally "Zippy", was a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and later by its successor, the United States Postal Service, to encourage the ...

The ZIP Code was launched 60 years ago this month as part of a program of improvements to increase postal delivery speed. At the time, Americans were already struggling to adapt to three-digit area ...

On July 1, 1963, the U.S. Post Office Department introduced the ZIP code program to get a handle on the heaping surplus of mail. Today, those five digits represent much more for American society. Back ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- All the zip codes in Chicago start with 606. As a date, that would be June 6th. On the northwest side, one of the zip codes is 60618. That lines up with the date and year. So the ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Back in the 1960s, there was a heaping surplus of mail in the U.S. Post offices were struggling to keep up with deliveries. According to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, mail volume reached ...