*shudder* A number of my company's clients cannot get the zip code/city right on San Diego-area shipments. I think the USPS created a new Zip3 area there a while back, and it takes years for addresses to get corrected. This causes all manner of problems for me trying to do modeling and analysis, because we get a bunch of shipments going to an invalid location.
Some of the things the USPS does make sense, though; the 961* zip codes (one of the few non-contiguous Zip3 areas in the country), which is parts of Alpine, Lassen, and Modoc counties, is served out of Reno even though it's in California. This makes a great deal of sense if you know about the geography of this part of the state. (Indeed, it would make better geographic sense for California's eastern boundary to run along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, but that would put a good portion of Los Angeles' water supply in Nevada, which I suspect would be unpalatable to Angelenos.)
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Date: 2011-01-13 05:23 pm (UTC)Some of the things the USPS does make sense, though; the 961* zip codes (one of the few non-contiguous Zip3 areas in the country), which is parts of Alpine, Lassen, and Modoc counties, is served out of Reno even though it's in California. This makes a great deal of sense if you know about the geography of this part of the state. (Indeed, it would make better geographic sense for California's eastern boundary to run along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, but that would put a good portion of Los Angeles' water supply in Nevada, which I suspect would be unpalatable to Angelenos.)