The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has launched an online microsite celebrating and examining the history and development of Mr. Zip and the ZIP Code campaign. Introduced in 1963, ZIP Codes were ...

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 ...

LEESBURG — In postal circles, Robert Aurand Moon was known as “Mr. ZIP.” Moon, who invented the U.S. Postal Service’s ZIP code system and later was director of delivery services for the entire nation, ...

Someone whom I’ve known since elementary school celebrated his fiftieth birthday this week. On July 1, Mr. ZIP reached the half-century mark. His invention brought efficiency changes to the U.S.

Sure, there are some other celebrities who were born in 1963 (Brad Pitt, perhaps? Johnny Depp? How about Michael Jordan?) who have more name recognition, but none of them send you letters every day.

The ZIP Code was launched 60 years ago this month as part of a program of improvements to increase postal delivery speed. At the time, Americans were already struggling to adapt to three-digit area ...

In postal circles, Robert Aurand Moon was known as “Mr. ZIP.” Mr. Moon, who invented the U.S. Postal Service’s ZIP code system and later was director of delivery services for the entire nation, died ...

Mr. ZIP, informally "Zippy", was a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and later by its successor, the United States Postal Service, to encourage the ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- All the zip codes in Chicago start with 606. As a date, that would be June 6th. On the northwest side, one of the zip codes is 60618. That lines up with the date and year. So the ...