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		maxerickson on April 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postman delivers 'somewhere in Sheffield' parcel 5 digit US zip codes are pretty course, thousands and thousands of people each. The newer 9 digit codes are something like the delivery route for the address (I'm not sure that is exactly right, but they are much finer grained).

chiph on April 26, 2020 [–]

Putting just my house number and ZIP code into Google maps just got me the outline of the ZIP code area. Using just the ZIP and ZIP+4 didn't improve the results. Google doesn't quite know everything yet. ;)

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