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Mr. ZIP standing cut-out

Click to open image viewer. This plywood form was cut to the shape of Mr. ZIP, the marketing tool used by the Post Office Department to encourage the use of ZIP codes. The printed image of Mr. ZIP is ...
Daily Herald

Mr. Zip turns 60 as Delivery for America enters its third year

The ZIP Code was launched 60 years ago this month as part of a program of improvements to increase postal delivery speed. At the time, Americans were already struggling to adapt to three-digit area ...
bleedingcool

Dynamite To Publish Books Based On The US Post Office's Mr. Zip

Mr. ZIP, informally "Zippy", was a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and later by its successor, the United States Postal Service, to encourage the ...
The Washington Post

The Zip code may seem benign now, but some Americans smelled a rat

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, left, and two city letter carriers posing with Mr. Zip in 1963. (N/A/United States Postal Service.) Perspective by John Kelly While vacationing at his Texas ranch in ...