Us post codes

The American zip code, devised in (0-response ) to changing (16-postage ) needs, has been around for some time. Between 1900 and the year of its(17-economics ) the quantity and nature of US mail changed. Its volume increased by 900% and most of it become business, rather than personal, (18-corresponding ) an acronym for zoning improvement plan, the zip system speeds up the sorting and delivering of mail, especially bulk mail.(19-name ) it consists of five numbers after the address. The first digit identifies one of ten broad (20-brief ) areas . the next two numbers designate a metropolitan area or sectional centre. The final two numbers stand for a small town or delivery unit from which the mail is distributed. For instance, in 22207,the initial number is area 2, (21-geographical ) the district of Columbia , Maryland. North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and 07 is the local area. In 1983, an (22-ablebodied ) nine-numbered zip code was introduced. Business mailers with large volumes of post can use this code, receiving a(23-substantial ) discount on their mailing rate. In addition as early as 1963, when the zip code itself was devised, two-letter abbreviations for states and other areas were brought in, to(24-optician ) the mechanized addressing system used by many companies to (25-introduction ) on time by putting a zip code on the same line as the city or state.