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Old 11-04-2010, 07:05 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Sal View Post
Perhaps one of the very intelligent/knowledgeable people who inhabit/haunt this forum can tell me why we need to include the name of the town, when addressing envelopes, when the zip-code does the job.
Why do we have to spell out M O U L T O N B O R O U G H when 03254 clearly denotes the intended location? In fact, if one uses the zip-code-plus four, why do we need to include a street address.
Strikes me that a NAME and a zip+4 should get a piece of mail delivered to its intended destination. Otherwise, WHY use these NUMBERS at all???

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I am with you on this. I had an argument on a piece of mail that came back from the Wolfeboro PO. We had addressed something every month to Center Wolfeboro for years. It also had a PO box. Suddenly one day, it came back. BTW it was the address given to us by the person. The PO said they didn't know where Center Wolfeboro was. My argument was theoretically if you have a po box and a zip, it should get delivered. The postmaster did agree with me.
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