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Category : Postal codes
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Ever since the ZIP Code system for identifying address locations was devised in the 1960s, some citizens have wanted to change the ZIP Code to which their addresses are assigned. Because ZIP Codes are often not aligned with municipal boundaries, millions of Americans have mailing addresses in neighboring jurisdictions. This can cause higher insurance rates, confusion in voter registration, misdirected property and sales tax revenues for municipalities, and property value effects. some communities that lack a delivery post office complain that the need to use mailing addresses of adjacent areas robs them of a community identity. Because the ZIP Code is the cornerstone for the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS's) mail distribution system, USPS long resisted changing ZIP Codes for any reason other than to improve the efficiency of delivery. Frustrated citizens frequently have turned to Members of Congress for assistance in altering ZIP Code boundaries. In the 101st Congress, a House subcommittee heard testimony from Members, city officials and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that USPS routinely denied local requests for adjusting ZIP Code boundaries in a peremptory manner. It considered three bills that would allow local governments to determine mailing addresses for their jurisdictions. Since then, USPS has developed a "ZIP Code Boundary Review Process" that promises "every reasonable effort" to consider and if possible accommodate municipal requests to modify the last lines of an acceptable address and/or ZIP Code boundaries. The process places responsibility on district managers, rather than local postmasters, to review requests for boundary adjustment, to evaluate costs and benefits of alternative solutions to identified problems, and to provide a decision within 60 days. If the decision is negative, the process provides for an appeal to the manager of delivery in USPS headquarters, where a review based on whether or not a "reasonable accommodation" was made is to be provided within 60 days. The boundary review process, coupled with a more flexible attitude on the part of USPS than was formerly the case, offers enhanced possibilities of accommodating community desires. One accommodation that can often be made is to allow the alternative use of more than one city name in the last line of the address, while retaining the ZIP Code number of the delivery office. This can help with community identity problems, though not with problems such as insurance rates or tax remittances being directed by ZIP Code. Members of Congress who are contacted by constituents desiring a ZIP Code accommodation should first ensure that the constituents are aware of the boundary review process requirements. Constituents should be made aware that simply having approached a local postmaster and having been told that an adjustment would be disruptive and impractical is not part of the process. The local postmaster has no power to make changes and may be unaware o the headquarters instructions to make "every reasonable effort" to reach an accommodation.
Changing Postal ZIP Code Boundaries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal codes
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Ever since the ZIP Code system for identifying address locations was devised in the 1960s, some citizens have wanted to change the ZIP Code to which their addresses are assigned. Because ZIP Codes are often not aligned with municipal boundaries, millions of Americans have mailing addresses in neighboring jurisdictions. This can cause higher insurance rates, confusion in voter registration, misdirected property and sales tax revenues for municipalities, and property value effects. some communities that lack a delivery post office complain that the need to use mailing addresses of adjacent areas robs them of a community identity. Because the ZIP Code is the cornerstone for the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS's) mail distribution system, USPS long resisted changing ZIP Codes for any reason other than to improve the efficiency of delivery. Frustrated citizens frequently have turned to Members of Congress for assistance in altering ZIP Code boundaries. In the 101st Congress, a House subcommittee heard testimony from Members, city officials and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that USPS routinely denied local requests for adjusting ZIP Code boundaries in a peremptory manner. It considered three bills that would allow local governments to determine mailing addresses for their jurisdictions. Since then, USPS has developed a "ZIP Code Boundary Review Process" that promises "every reasonable effort" to consider and if possible accommodate municipal requests to modify the last lines of an acceptable address and/or ZIP Code boundaries. The process places responsibility on district managers, rather than local postmasters, to review requests for boundary adjustment, to evaluate costs and benefits of alternative solutions to identified problems, and to provide a decision within 60 days. If the decision is negative, the process provides for an appeal to the manager of delivery in USPS headquarters, where a review based on whether or not a "reasonable accommodation" was made is to be provided within 60 days. The boundary review process, coupled with a more flexible attitude on the part of USPS than was formerly the case, offers enhanced possibilities of accommodating community desires. One accommodation that can often be made is to allow the alternative use of more than one city name in the last line of the address, while retaining the ZIP Code number of the delivery office. This can help with community identity problems, though not with problems such as insurance rates or tax remittances being directed by ZIP Code. Members of Congress who are contacted by constituents desiring a ZIP Code accommodation should first ensure that the constituents are aware of the boundary review process requirements. Constituents should be made aware that simply having approached a local postmaster and having been told that an adjustment would be disruptive and impractical is not part of the process. The local postmaster has no power to make changes and may be unaware o the headquarters instructions to make "every reasonable effort" to reach an accommodation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal codes
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Ever since the ZIP Code system for identifying address locations was devised in the 1960s, some citizens have wanted to change the ZIP Code to which their addresses are assigned. Because ZIP Codes are often not aligned with municipal boundaries, millions of Americans have mailing addresses in neighboring jurisdictions. This can cause higher insurance rates, confusion in voter registration, misdirected property and sales tax revenues for municipalities, and property value effects. some communities that lack a delivery post office complain that the need to use mailing addresses of adjacent areas robs them of a community identity. Because the ZIP Code is the cornerstone for the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS's) mail distribution system, USPS long resisted changing ZIP Codes for any reason other than to improve the efficiency of delivery. Frustrated citizens frequently have turned to Members of Congress for assistance in altering ZIP Code boundaries. In the 101st Congress, a House subcommittee heard testimony from Members, city officials and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that USPS routinely denied local requests for adjusting ZIP Code boundaries in a peremptory manner. It considered three bills that would allow local governments to determine mailing addresses for their jurisdictions. Since then, USPS has developed a "ZIP Code Boundary Review Process" that promises "every reasonable effort" to consider and if possible accommodate municipal requests to modify the last lines of an acceptable address and/or ZIP Code boundaries. The process places responsibility on district managers, rather than local postmasters, to review requests for boundary adjustment, to evaluate costs and benefits of alternative solutions to identified problems, and to provide a decision within 60 days. If the decision is negative, the process provides for an appeal to the manager of delivery in USPS headquarters, where a review based on whether or not a "reasonable accommodation" was made is to be provided within 60 days. The boundary review process, coupled with a more flexible attitude on the part of USPS than was formerly the case, offers enhanced possibilities of accommodating community desires. One accommodation that can often be made is to allow the alternative use of more than one city name in the last line of the address, while retaining the ZIP Code number of the delivery office. This can help with community identity problems, though not with problems such as insurance rates or tax remittances being directed by ZIP Code. Members of Congress who are contacted by constituents desiring a ZIP Code accommodation should first ensure that the constituents are aware of the boundary review process requirements. Constituents should be made aware that simply having approached a local postmaster and having been told that an adjustment would be disruptive and impractical is not part of the process. The local postmaster has no power to make changes and may be unaware o the headquarters instructions to make "every reasonable effort" to reach an accommodation.
Zip Code Boundaries
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations and Services
Publisher:
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Changing Postal ZIP Code Boundaries
Author: Wendy R. Ginsberg
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Zip code boundaries
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations and Services
Publisher:
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Zip Code Boundaries
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations and Services
Publisher:
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Zip Code Boundaries
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Operations and Services
Publisher:
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Postal Primer
Author: Christensen
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
ZIP Code System in the United States Postal Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Facilities and Modernization
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Category : Zip codes
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Zip codes
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
5 Digit Zip Code Boundary Data
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Category : Military bases, American
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Military and non-US state zip codes (mostly Puerto Rico) as of Dec. '04; unused zip codes as of Dec. '04, and zip code boundary data is available for the whole U.S.
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Category : Military bases, American
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Military and non-US state zip codes (mostly Puerto Rico) as of Dec. '04; unused zip codes as of Dec. '04, and zip code boundary data is available for the whole U.S.
Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health
Author: Sandro Galea
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 038770812X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This book explores social factors such as culture, mass media, political systems, and migration that influence public health while systematically considering how we may best study these factors and use our knowledge from this study to guide public health interventions. Throughout, contributors emphasize the potential of population strategies to influence traditional risk factors associated with health and disease. Each section ends with Galea’s integrative chapters, bringing the observations and conclusions from the chapters into clear, usable focus.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 038770812X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This book explores social factors such as culture, mass media, political systems, and migration that influence public health while systematically considering how we may best study these factors and use our knowledge from this study to guide public health interventions. Throughout, contributors emphasize the potential of population strategies to influence traditional risk factors associated with health and disease. Each section ends with Galea’s integrative chapters, bringing the observations and conclusions from the chapters into clear, usable focus.