Question: I live in Fox Crossing in Winnebago County, but the post office gave me an Appleton address with the 54914 ZIP code. If I order anything online, I end up paying the Outagamie County ...

Nowadays, people don't send letters to one another when they want to catch up. You may get holiday or birthday cards from your parents, grandparents or other family members and friends, but for the ...

The postal service may be in a financial vise right now, but fifty years ago it created an economic legacy–one now reportedly worth billions of dollars a year. On July 1, 1963, it introduced the ...

Almost everyone knows their five digit ZIP code, and probably a few others within their city, but what’s up with the extra four digits you sometimes see on mail? Let’s start with those first five ...

Widespread adoption of the ZIP code can largely be attributed to a cartoon letter carrier. The U.S. Postal Service introduced the Zone Improvement Plan as a means to more efficiently sort and route ...