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0 pointsdagw11y ago0 comments

Pedantically, yes. Practically, no.

Basically everybody in the US uses the phrase "zip-code" informally to mean postal code even when talking about international addresses.

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ChristianGeek11y ago· 5 in thread

I've never run across anyone in the U.S. who refers to postal codes as zip codes.

wtbob11y ago

> I've never run across anyone in the U.S. who refers to postal codes as zip codes.

Say what? Where in the U.S. do you live? I've been all over, and I've never once heard them called 'postal codes'; always and every time 'zip codes.'

eropple11y ago

I've only ever heard "postal code" in the South.

cheetos11y ago

You must live in a different U.S. than everyone else. It's clearly the other way around.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:usps.com+"zip+code" returns 120k results

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:usps.com+"postal+code" returns 372 results

gchokov11y ago

To be honest, everyone should refer to these as postal codes or at least address codes. No one refers to the ZIP code as Zone Improvement Plan code anyway.. so what is the use of these code in the real life?

ChristianGeek11y ago

Good grief, I was talking about referring to international postal codes as zip codes, which I thought was what this thread is about.

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