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.

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 ...

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 ...

On July 1, 1963, the U.S. Post Office Department introduced the ZIP code program to get a handle on the heaping surplus of mail. Today, those five digits represent much more for American society. Back ...

Most kids I knew didn’t worry a lot about weirdo strangers bothering us in an early 1960s version of Nashua, especially if we stayed clear of certain neighborhoods our parents liked to call “rough” or ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Postman John Garcia was shouldering his mailbag through Arcadia half a century ago when he noticed five new numbers inscribed at the bottom of a letter: ...