U.S. Postal Service to Introduce Portable Zip Codes

Bertha Venation

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Thu Apr-01-04 09:30 PM
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U.S. Postal Service to Introduce Portable Zip Codes

See, the slippery slope can't be a logical fallacy when there's proof like this that it happens!

The cell phone companies started it: letting people keep their numbers. The noive!

Now the postal service has introduced plans to allow people to keep their zip codes.

I just wonder: how will they get mail to me (when I reclaim 92647) and to Mrs. V. (when she reclaims her Tennessee zip code) here in Southern Maryland?

Gotta love NPR on the first day of April....

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Wickerman

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Thu Apr-01-04 09:32 PM
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1. I heard that today on MPR - Wow!

Edited on Thu Apr-01-04 09:32 PM by lunabush

:P

I don't really understand how it will work - and I don't like my zip. :grr:

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phaseolus

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Thu Apr-01-04 09:34 PM
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2. April Fools' joke

Edited on Thu Apr-01-04 09:36 PM by phaseolus

It just *had* to be...

The "Going Postal Program"????

On edit -- link to NPR page where they 'fess up: http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1805651

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greatauntoftriplets

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Thu Apr-01-04 09:35 PM
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3. I heard it, too.

And thought it was a joke. At least I hope so! Sounds damned stupid.

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Wickerman

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Thu Apr-01-04 09:36 PM
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4. A thing of beauty

I look forward to it each year.

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mobuto

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Fri Apr-02-04 08:34 AM
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7. Oh come on

You mean Bill Clinton can't still keep 20500?

That'd be nice.

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mike_c

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Thu Apr-01-04 09:51 PM
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5. that was one of their better jokes....

eom

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ET Awful

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Fri Apr-02-04 08:30 AM
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6. I agree,

Edited on Fri Apr-02-04 08:45 AM by ET Awful

I recognized it as a joke immediately :).

I was actually impressed that they could do such a flat/dead-pan reading of the story without a hitch.

I was laughing my ass off :)

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