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The Hidden Journey inside ZIP Codes (Patreon)

Published:
2025-01-29 00:44:58
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2025-01-29 03:46:38
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The Hidden Pattern in Post Codes

- Thank you, Bonnie Bees, for making this video possible: https://www.cgpgrey.com/bonnie ## Related Videos: What is Federal Land? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LruaD7XhQ50 ## Bonnie Bees: 💚 The Wall of 1,000 Thanks: https://www.cgpgrey.com/wall-of-thanks 🎩🐤🎩 And the 100 Top Chickens: - Rebecca Wortham - Bob Kunz - Kate Scheper - Donal Botkin - BN-12 - David White - Andrea Di Biagio - George Lin - Nancy Flores - iulus - Xueqi - Tim Stumbaugh - Bogdan Toma - Brian Tillman - Chad Bramwell - Nicolas Dedual - Nicholas Welna - Richard Jenkins - Martin - Chris - Meekay - سليمان العقل - Jason Lewandowski - Manuel O. Maldonado - Norm - rictic - Silvainius - Derek Bonner - Eliri SDH - Freddi Hørlyck - Peter-Claire Lomax - Vero - John Lee - Maxime Zielony - John Rogers https://www.patreon.com/cgpgrey ## Music David Rees: http://www.davidreesmusic.com

Comments

Ian

Yay! Grey is back! We've missed you, and can't wait to see what big project you've been up to.

Ryan Butler

So but as a New Jersian… what? How can it be more efficient for Boston or wherever to sort our mail than the people on the on the other side of the river?

Darryl Gerrow

Ok now I want a completely random, arbitrary, anonymous zip code.

Anschel Schaffer-Cohen
>>162812088

If I had to guess, it's probably because getting freight (which includes mail) across the river is surprisingly slow and difficult. Especially when the post office still mostly ran on rail, there's no freight rail link across the Hudson anywhere near NYC.

Darren Pierce
>>162812088

Anschel is probably right. But, it could also be that this is the only way government employees have to amuse themselves. "That'll keep 'em guessing," etc

Dsurian

"Isn't this just the address again" ... sorry, but this irks me - the posit *really* shoulda been "isn't this just the town/state/country again" - cuz the zipcode arguably is just that, at least in the US. Meanwhile, the street address and number will likely always be necessary (unless GPS coordinates are adopted), while the entity is only important to the inhabitants of that number, assuming there's multiple. An address label with nothing but a street name & dwelling number + zipcode should successfully reach the recipient 99% of the time (in the US). (Edit2; unless it was a megacorp, in which case you'd likely need an extra line in either case, such as 'Attn: Accounting') Edit; still, you're the best Grey & Co - thank you for the content!!!

Artifexian

Irish guy here. Nice touch at 07:26, Grey :)

Stefen C

In the Netherlands, we just need the post code and the house number and it knows where we are

Mordecai Glicksman

If I remember rightly from when the ZIP Code plan came out, the ZIP stood for Zone Improvement Plan. When television commercials came out educating the public about ZIP Codes, they described it thus: First digit, which tenth of the country; second & third digits, major distribution point; and fourth & fifth digits, individual post office. The latter had been previously identified with a "zone number." I went from living in "New York 24, NY" to "New York, NY 10024". I eventually learned that 00 was New York county AKA the Borough of Manhattan.

Kyle Siemens

H3C 5H7 for the Canadian postal code on the end card eh? Even a video that isn't about planes is secretly about planes with this guy smdh.

Justin Cellini

Are we getting a behind the scenes for this?

Michael M
>>162812088

The first digit is just a general area, it doesn't correspond to an actual building/facility. There used to be 20 national-level distribution centers, NJ and MA each had one for their respective regions, and the 0s on the islands were handled by Jacksonville which otherwise dealt with 3s.

NDO

Arguably, "Greater Atlantia" actually stretches further: all the way to the Arctic and Himalayas, as Army Post Offices (APOs) in the Armed Forces Europe (AE) system are used at Thule, Greenland (09704 at 71.8 N) and throughout US Central Command's AOR. Past Islamabad (09812), Armed Forces Pacific (AP) picks things up from the other side with 96XXX zip codes. Amundsen-Scott also has a Greater Pacifica zip code (96598) since it has a Fleet Post Office (FPO) address.

Sam Rigby

Directors commentary forthcoming?