Drew- 10023-BEER

Straight balling in the 99216-2957, dawg!

13580-RULE

/missing a number :(

How about rasing the bulk mail rate? All that shiat goes right into the recycling bin.

19446-1337

1337 hax0rz 1n da 7an$da73 ar3a!

No! No! Do you know how much IT work will be required worldwide to alter how zip code validation is done? There are thousands upon thousands of products that validate zip codes as "\d{5}(-\d{4})?". Changing that to "\d{5}(-[A-Z0-9]{5})?" will require money, rewriting test cases, verifying, testing... please God, no!

The time zone shiat was bad enough!

38134-CRACKA seems to work okay for me.

End Bulk Mail
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/End_20Bulk_20Mail
Ever increasing postal rates are used to subsidize bulk (junk) mail. To reduce the volume of junk mail, and the waste it causes, abolish the bulk mailing discount and charge the same rate applied to first class mail. This would have a number of beneficial effects from reducing the cost of postage to eliminating a tremendous source of pollution.

A special exemption fee for certified non-profit organizations would allow them to send mail at a discount. This would preserve the financial integrity of community organization and others that use mass mailing in a responsible fashion.

This exemption would not apply to politicians, who regularly use taxpayer funded mail to send thinly disguised campaign flyers. My local representatives send out pictures of themselves at least once a week, attached to some bullshiat 'newsletter' touting their latest legislative coup. Politicians will be required to personally pay full rate for all mail sent to constituents.

Wow..without vanity zip codes, what would people use to distinguish themselves from everyone else besides their names and addresses?

Ceph: "\d{5}(-[A-Z0-9]{5})?"

"\d{5}(-[A-Z0-9]{4})?"

FTFY. Though I hadn't yet RTFA, so I thought they were allowing up to 5 letters, so I ended up with:
"\d{5}(-([A-Z]{5}|[0-9]{4}))?" though I think it can be simplified...

Oh yea, because the twits in the USPS don't already fark up enough. I had an overnight package sent via USPS take a week to get to me. And I only got useful help in tracking it after I tried to file a lost claim on it...

94598-DIAF

This was proposed in the UK.

It didn't work.

94101-UFIA.

submitter: Post office considering vanity zip codes. 40502-FARK rumored to be worth $8 and a candy bar

And there shall be good beer and lots of boobies.

/until bought out by the suits
//then there will be Budweiser, and your wimmins will have to cover everything from head to toe

80302-STFU

Does anyone even use the +4 numbers anyway? I sure as hell dont, and all my stuff seems to get where it needs to be going.

94583-UFIA

8675309...

60062-BOOBZ

Aren't I lucky?

What a font of stupid ideas! How about getting MY mail to MY mailbox, instead of to my neighbors' boxes, at more or less the same time every day, and when you have that down, and aren't opening all my NETFLIX disks before I get them a few days late...then and only then consider mucking around with ZIP codes?

Raines8416, yes. The +4 really aren't for residential use. They are part of the standards that let businesses send mail cheaper than residential mail in exchange for doing part of the USPS's work: zip code +4, verified address, routing barcode, and ensuring that the letter can be 100% processed by the automatic routing system.

Part of the postage you pay to send a letter is a surcharge because residential mail requires far more manual handling than business mail (on average).

$8 and a candy bar? I think not. You can rent that one for $5 a month.

NickelP, I'd wager it's more for business use again. Microsoft, for instance, would probably pay a pretty penny to have their zip code show up as "55674-MSFT".

44117-8008 (boob, hehe)

I'm watching this thread for an answer to this question. I've never used one and have no idea when someone is sopposed to. I fail to see any practicality to this at all.
I was under the impression that the extra four numbers were box numbers at the post office, to help the postal workers sort it a little quicker. I can't provide any linky-evidence to this, though.

10037-GHTO

@chrisdmid
A ZIP + 4 code uses the basic five-digit code plus an additional four digits to identify a geographic segment within the five-digit delivery area, such as a city block, a group of apartments, an individual high-volume receiver of mail or any other unit that could use an extra identifier to aid in efficient mail sorting and delivery.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipcodes#ZIP_.2B_4

20500-DOPE

12557-715517

Tissit = finnish = Bewbz

90066-MILFs

Fark those four extra digits.

Hell, once in a while I don't even put a zip code at all. The address should be enough. Maybe it will take an extra day or two, but who cares (if I'm sending something via snail mail then I'm obviously not all that concerned about time).

90210-DIAF

Those last four digits are citizen relocation codes.

To:
Drew Curtis
40383-FARK

From:
Pencil Sharp
40353-SNIT

It just went in the box.
Now for everyone's favorite "fark with a postal worker" game: WILL IT MAIL?

86753-JNNY

drjekel_mrhyde: A ZIP + 4 code uses the basic five-digit code plus an additional four digits to identify a geographic segment within the five-digit delivery area, such as a city block, a group of apartments, an individual high-volume receiver of mail or any other unit that could use an extra identifier to aid in efficient mail sorting and delivery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipcodes#ZIP_.2B_4

The only thing it does for me is make me wonder if I'm going to get my package or mail when I can't remember those 4 numbers and leave that spot blank.

dudeirock5: The only thing it does for me is make me wonder if I'm going to get my package or mail when I can't remember those 4 numbers and leave that spot blank.

You'll get your mail fine even without a zip code most of the time. You can even replace your city and state with just the zip code. The +4 is more for business use, as it reduces sorting time and cost, and is generally a pre-requisite for using the bulk postage classes. Residential or first-class postage don't require +4.

21214-1212

/likes palindromes

In Canada, the zip code puts the letter into an exact grouping of mail. The format has both letters and numbers, 6 digits. Sometimes different sides of the same street have different codes. Presumably because a different letter carrier could conceivably have the other side I guess.

They also don't subscribe to this whole bullshiat notion of having a bunch of different numerations of stamps with differnt values on them. They just sell stamps and when the rate changes the old stamps are still good. I stood in line behind a guy at the post the other day for 10 minutes. He purchased a packages of 1c stamps (22c). Waste of my time. Waste of the tellers time. Waste of his time.

Isn't Santa's zip code in Canada H0H 0H0?

Just days after upscale department store Sakes Fifth Avenue convinced the USPS to give it a vanity ZIP code for its shoe department

Err... Please proofread articles.

Anybody remember the "$8 and a Candy Bar" story?

Subby's going way back for that one.

Something about police arresting a hooker who was paid $8 and a candy bar.

I can't believe nobody's said anything about it.

/100 Grand?

October 19, 2003? shiat!



Fark Headline: When you run into someone you babysat when a teen,
you hope it is for something other than arresting her for prostitution at
the rate of $8 and a candy bar.
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/It goes downhill from there...