Mr. Zip, as featured on a public advertisement Photo courtesy Postal Museum. One of the ... Postmaster General J. Edward Day and others were convinced of the need to automate the sorting process.

PRACHNIAK, Edward S. “Zip” Edward S. “Zip” Prachniak, 82, of Rockville, passed away peacefully Thursday, (March 24, 2005) at the Evergreen Health Care Center in Stafford Springs. He was ...

The ZIP code is less like a cold, clinical, ordered list of numbers, and more like a weird overgrown number garden. It started as a way to organize mail after WWII, but now it pops up all over our ...