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Re: Dating tips...
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- Subject: Re: Dating tips...
- From: Patterson Smith <patsmith@voicenet.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:01:58 -0800 (PST)
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(1) Short numeric postal codes (one or two digits, not then termed "zip
codes") were introduced in large cities about 1941 to ease Post Office
labor shortages brought about by Selective Service.
>In a message dated 30-Oct-98 9:19:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>RobertMueller@worldnet.att.net writes:
>
>> To assist me in dating ephemera, (1) can anyone inform me when postal =
>> Zip codes were introduced? (I was around, but I don't remember.) And =
>> (2), for the same purposes, when did telephone exchanges move from a =
>> simple three digits to seven, or ten? Thanks to any and all. Bob Mueller
>
>(1) 1962.
>(2) Sorry, I don't know.
>
>
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