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Announces
Zip Code Imprints
Postmaster General John A. Gronouski announced Tuesday that ZIP Codes will be imprinted on postmarks identifying more than 30,000 post offices that individually serve one ZIP Code area. All but 1,701 of the nation’s 33,895 post offices, the Postmaster General said, will eventually carry the Zip Code number in $he lower portion of the familiar circular postmark.
Th% 1,701, Mr. Gronouski explained, represent post offices in the larger cities serving more than one ZIP Code area. With the above exception, the new procedure will be adopted in all classes of post offices throughout -ohe country, whether they use a steel die or rubber stamp to imprint the postmark. “This will help tremendously,” the Postmaster General said, “as we move into mass pre-sorting and ZIP Code distribution of volume mailings. **To.the volume mailer, with
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