One of the most important breakthroughs in modern communication lies in an overlooked place. It’s printed onto envelopes, just below the address. Although we think nothing of the ZIP Code these days, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has launched an online microsite celebrating and examining the history and development of Mr. Zip and the ZIP Code campaign. Introduced in 1963, ZIP Codes were ...

LEESBURG — In postal circles, Robert Aurand Moon was known as “Mr. ZIP.” Moon, who invented the U.S. Postal Service’s ZIP code system and later was director of delivery services for the entire nation, ...

The postal service may be in a financial vise right now, but fifty years ago it created an economic legacy–one now reportedly worth billions of dollars a year. On July 1, 1963, it introduced the ...

Mr. ZIP is turning 50 on Monday, July 1. On July 1,1963, the Postal Service adopted the popular cartoon figure as the trademark for the Zoning Improvement Plan, or ZIP Code, to better handle ...

Someone whom I’ve known since elementary school celebrated his fiftieth birthday this week. On July 1, Mr. ZIP reached the half-century mark. His invention brought efficiency changes to the U.S.

In postal circles, Robert Aurand Moon was known as “Mr. ZIP.” Mr. Moon, who invented the U.S. Postal Service’s ZIP code system and later was director of delivery services for the entire nation, died ...

On July 1, 1963, the U.S. Post Office Department introduced the ZIP code program to get a handle on the heaping surplus of mail. Today, those five digits represent much more for American society. Back ...

His face once adorned post offices across the county. He lives in obscurity now, but at one time his visage appeared in newspapers and on television. In his prime, he palled around with Ethel Merman.