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- The original design was done by Harold Wilcox, an ad man from Cunningham and Walsh.
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May 15, 2015 · The first three digits of the ZIP code were invented by Robert A. Moon, who came up with a system for dividing the country into approximately 900 geographical areas. Eventually, H. Bentley Hahn contributed the fourth and fifth digits, which added further precision to geographic locales.
Apr 14, 2001 · Robert A. Moon, a career postal employee who in 1963 won a 20-year fight for what was to become the ZIP code, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Leesburg, FL, 34748.
Apr 15, 2001 · Robert Aurand Moon, the postal official who helped invent the ZIP Code system and later was director of delivery services for the U.S. Postal Service, has died.
Robert Aurand Moon (April 15, 1917, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, US – April 10, 2001, Leesburg, Florida, US), sometimes called "Mr. ZIP", is considered the father of the ZIP Code or Zone Improvement Plan, a mechanism to route mail in the United States.
In 1985, after successful trials at Mount Pleasant, the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system was introduced nationally. This system automatically reads the postcode on printed addresses and prints the appropriate phosphorescent dots (codes) on to the envelope.
Jun 24, 2024 · Who invented zip codes and why? The first three digits of zip codes were invented by Robert A. Moon. He proposed a system that divided the country into approximately 900 geographical areas to facilitate mail sorting and delivery.
Jul 1, 2013 · By Nancy Pope, Historian and Curator. July 1, 1963 saw the public introduction of a new way of processing our mail by adding five numbers to each address. These new Zoning Improvement Plan numbers, or ZIP Codes, were used to speed up mail processing.
