Re: CHAT: postcodes
From: | Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> |
Date: | Friday, September 20, 2002, 17:26 |
Ihékwike Roger Mills:
>
> US postal codes are based on relatively large
> regions; telephone codes on
> smaller regions. Needless to say, there is no
> correlation between the two
> systems.
> US license plates, which used to exist in wondrous
> variety, have almost all
> gone to the three-letter three-digit model (with
variations).
But in more populous states (like my native Indiana)
we *have* to have a 7-digit system (unless we wanted
all-letters, which would lead to some disastrous
combinations. :) )
Clint
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