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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 9, 1963 | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...ZIP, schmip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 9, 1963 | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...government. He launched Accelerated Business Collection-Delivery (ABCD), a service in which letters mailed in any of 273 cities by 11 a.m. are delivered to any point in the downtown section of the city by 3 p.m. the same day. Day's recently inaugurated Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP), using five-digit codes affixed by the sender, is designed to speed mail service by pinpointing exactly how the letter should be routed-through one of ten U.S. regions, and on to states, cities, towns, postal zones or even large office buildings. Already in use by advertising mailers, ZIP eliminates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Goodbye, Mr. ZIP | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...have me catch a cold instead?" But more often it is mildly amusing, as when one of the men logically demonstrates that the tree is not a tree. The funniest moment in the play, though, is not verbal at all; it comes when the other man is unable to zip...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: 'By The Sea' at the Ex | 7/30/1963 | See Source »

...Banana shouldn't prove too slippery a skin for Milton Berle to zip himself into. Gaithersburg, Md.; Devon, Pa.; Haddonfield, N.J.; West Springfield, Mass.; Westbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 19, 1963 | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

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