University Daily Kansan, February 15, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
New code to help mail ZIP
By JEANINE HOWE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Neither rain, sleet nor snow stops the mail from getting through. But failure to use a new ZIP code in the south part of Lawrence could delay mail by one day, said Jack Harris, Lawrence postmaster.
Harris said, "As far as we are concerned, it is in effect.
The new ZIP code area comprises the addresses south of and including E. 19th Street to Kasalo, and those south of and including W. 15 Street to Kasalo. It will also include rural routes 2, 5, and 6.
concerned, it's a hard one.
"We'll have to wait till it gets into the national directory. Once it's been given national publicity, we'll be encouraging everyone to use the 60046."
The University will keep its current ZIP code.
CHARLES HAGEN STATION manager at Jayhawk Station, 1519 W. 23rd St., said the office had been informing people of the new ZIP
Although the new ZIP code, 60646, was adopted last summer, it is not officially in circulation.
Hagen said, 'We can't change it overnight, but it's been promoted. The sooner people start using it the
sooner mailers will notice the change."
change Harris said the new ZIP code would allow the mail to be sorted more quickly. If the correct code were not used for the new area, mail could be delayed.
Harris said since the University opened, the city had had two ZIP codes, one for Lawrence, 66044, and one for the University of Kansas, 66045. He said the government decided to eliminate some ZIP code areas about 10 years ago, and 66045 vanished.
After 66045 was reinstated for the University, Harris said, he then began to seek approval for a new city ZIP code. He said Lawrence's growing population had prompted his decision.
BUT AFTER A few years the Lawrence post office realized how helpful the University ZIP code had been, Harris said, and he requested the ZIP code 60045 be reinstated. The main post office in Kansas City has the main post office in Kansas City.
Harris said the main post office in Kansas City, Mo., now sends mail to Lawrence's main post office, 645 Vermont St., the workers at the Lawrence office manually presorted the mail into different routes.
even quicker when nine-digit ZIP codes became commonly used
Harris said mail delivery would be
Harris said the new nine-digit ZIP code, which the government had been working on for several years, was created to make presorting mail even faster.
"WITH THE ADDITIONAL FOUR digits, it will allow everything to be carried by those carriers to be sorted in Kansas City, Mo." Harris said.
The city would have many different four-digit ZIP code endings, he said, maybe even a different one for each block.
yet, he said.
He said the delay in using the longer ZIP code gave people time "to give all nine digits to Aunt Mable."
He said the scanners also would sort mail in order within routes. Now carriers have to sort the mail for their routes.
Most business and industries now are using the nine digits, Harris said, because they can get a cheaper mail rate.
Because the government still is fine-tuning the nine-digit program, it is not managulatory to use the system yet, he said.
Harris said there would be several advantages once the new ZIP code and additional four-digit system were used regularly.
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