Mr. Zip Flashback Traditional Cache
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I will be releasing Mr. Zip puzzle caches soon!!! Stay tuned but
this is first. A brief History of Mr. Zip. He
returns!!!!!!
Park at 44 24.876 W 073 05.216 The Zoning Improvement Plan (ZIP)
Codes were invented by Robert Aurand Moon in the 1950’s although
they didn’t come into use by the Post Office until 1963. As the
Father of ZIP Codes, Moon was also known as “Mr. ZIP Code.” Moon,
born on April 15, 1917 in Williamsport, PA, was the United States
director of mail delivery services for seven years. He started
working for the post office in the 1940s as a postal inspector in
Philadelphia and Chicago. According to his wife of over 50 years,
Barbara Moon, this was the period when he began working on his idea
of a Zoning Improvement Plan (ZIP), and the invention of ZIP Codes.
Moon originally invented a three-digit code system that he believed
was necessary for the post office to keep up with the mail volume
after WWII. This system was later expanded into the ZIP Code system
put into use in 1963. Moon’s numerical system was designed from the
outset for mechanical sorting. “Mr. ZIP Code” retired from his
position in 1965. Moon returned to work as the Director of Delivery
Services in Washington, DC in 1970. He retired from that post in
1977 and moved to Zellwood, FL with his wife. “Mr. ZIP Code” was an
active volunteer while in Florida, participating in Meals on Wheels
in Orange County, the Zellwood Methodist Church and Florida
Hospital. “Mr. ZIP Code” died on April 10, 2001 at 83 years of age
at the Leesburg Nursing Center in Leesburg, FL. His ZIP Code at the
time of his death: 34748.
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