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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: ZIP Codes!

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

ZIP codes are pretty self-explanatory, but there are all kinds of fun facts around the topic. Listen in to find out.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want to grow, you got to step out of your comfort zone. Join me,

0:04.3

Jennifer Lopez for season three of my podcast over Comfort. Every week I'll be

0:09.2

having honest conversations with some of my favorite friends. This is like me actually first time

0:13.8

talking about it my mom is gonna literally kill me but I'm so sorry mom.

0:18.4

We're opening up about the good stuff, the vulnerable stuff and the crunchy stuff.

0:22.4

Listen to the over-con and the crunchy stuff.

0:22.7

Listen to the Over Comfort Podcast with Jennifer Lopez

0:25.2

on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast,

0:28.0

or wherever you get your podcast. Hey and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're here with

0:38.8

Zippy, Mr. Zipp, also known as Jerry, sitting in for for Dave who has nothing to do with the post office and

0:46.0

this is short stuff.

0:47.0

That's right I'm sure we probably talked about zip codes to some degree in the post office

0:52.2

in our episode on yeah on zip codes. to some degree in the post office?

0:52.8

In our episode on, yeah, on zip codes.

0:55.2

It was USPS.

0:58.6

We didn't do one on zip codes.

0:59.6

No, I know.

1:00.6

Okay, good.

1:02.1

But we're going to talk a little bit about zip codes that thing on the envelope that's, well, it depends on how long it is, it depends, well, we'll get to what those numbers mean, because some of them are a little longer than others. If you want to talk

1:14.6

about the origin of just postal codes, it seems to be from London because in 1857 they started up with 10 different sections of London like

1:27.9

North South W.C Western Central just and the whole point of all this is to you know it's called a zone

1:35.8

improvement plan for a reason it's to improve the way mail was delivered and

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