![]() ![]() Not only were people sending more mail, but the post office was hiring a lot of new and inexperienced workers to replace those who had gone to fight the war, and the numerical city codes made it easier for all those new people to keep up and sort the mail quickly. If you’re wondering why postal zones were introduced in the first place in 1943, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum says it was because of World War II. She said its postal zone was 36, and it would be written as Dellwood 36, Missouri, and then after the introduction of ZIP codes, it became 63136, and the code moved from the middle of the address to the end. Sue Hatfield-Green wrote in with a similar story about Dellwood, Missouri. The ZIP code was supposed to be the very last item in an address, not sandwiched between the city and state.” Not only that, addresses were now supposed to be written as CITY, STATE / ZIP CODE. The ZIP codes inherited the existing postal system already in place. the numbers designated a large area to a progressively more focused, local area. Northeastern Ohio was designated as '441.' So therefore, the ZIP codes for East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights became 44112 and 44121, respectively. ![]()
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