Mr. Zip and the Brand-New ZIP Code When the Post Office debuted the ZIP Code, they introduced a friendly cartoon to be its lead salesman ...

The ZIP code`s corporate popularity contains an irony: In a country that holds individual privacy so sacred that it rejects national identity cards, Mr. ZIP has become Big Brother.

Mr. Zip, a gangly cartoonish figure with wide friendly eyes and a neat blue mail carrier's uniform, emerged fifty years ago to help the U.S. Postal Service promote its newest idea: five numbers ...

Mr. ZIP did his job well, and the Postal Service achieved nearly 100% compliance with ZIP codes. The cartoon was retired in 1983.

ZIP Code-style codes have even found a home in the slums of India, where at least one nonprofit is using them to “address the unaddressed.” The History of the Code: Mr. Moon and Mr. Zip The ...

LEESBURG — In postal circles, Robert Aurand Moon was known as “Mr. ZIP.” Moon, who invented the U.S. Postal Service’s ZIP code system and later was director of delivery services for the ...

Mr. ZIP, a bug-eyed, uniformed postal carrier, was a cartoon figure used in promoting the 1963 implementation of ZIP Codes. Mr.

After 22 years of service to his country, Mr. ZIP has been retired effective with the first stamp issue of 1986. The happy little fellow with the wide grin and big eyes, dressed in a mailman`s unif… ...

On July 1, 1963, the U.S. Post Office Department introduced the ZIP code program to get a handle on the heaping surplus of mail. Today, those five digits represent much more for American society.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, left, and two city letter carriers posing with Mr. Zip in 1963. (N/A/United States Postal Service.) Perspective by John Kelly While vacationing at his Texas ranch ...

The return address was to Mr. ZIP, with a real address: 3374 N. Dinwiddie St., Arlington, VA 22207. It caught my eye because the Zip code identified the neighborhood where I grew up in Arlington.