How Zip Codes Work | The Numbers' Secret Code!

Zip Codes are a part of our life. Developed by the USPS (at least for the US, obviously), the zip code allows mail to be quickly sorted and on to its desired destination quickly.
I hope you enjoy this video! Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
#educational #geography #explained
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0:00 What is a zip code?
1:02 History of the Zip Code
2:05 How the Zip Code Works
4:40 Zip+4
6:37 Zip Codes and Outro

[@pyramidhead0420]

You called the Atlanta Falcons, the Atlanta hawks

[@JustinLearnsThings]

☠️ lol we’ll I guess that lives on forever lol 😂

[@yaboi8047]

Who cares, either way they can’t win a Super Bowl 🤣

[@candlersdad]

Doesn't matter, they are literally a thousand feet apart. And as an Atlantan, I can say that they are basically the same. They each will show a lot of promise but never live up to it. All that matters is the fact he put Atlanta United on top, where they belong.

[@Kristiansolis15]

Are you kidding me? That’s the NBA team.

[@thegwynster]

I'm a little late to this video, but I'm doing a website about the history of the ZIP Code. One thing this video doesn't mention is that in rural/suburban areas of ZIP Code regions, the last two digits generally follow the alphabetical order of the names of the towns/post offices in that area.

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Oh fascinating! Thanks so much!!

[@johnpazbala]

Helpful thanks

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Thank you for watching!

[@JKD6991]

As a postal worker, thank you for this informative video. It describes how we process and deliver mail throughout the country! Automation has improved the processing of mail over the last forty years. Thank you again for the video.

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Thank you very much for watching! Big fan of the post office, so glad you liked it! 🙌

[@candlersdad]

As a former rural carrier I agree. If you mail a letter to someone in rural VT, for example, you can literally just put the name and zip and they will get it.

[@JustMikeDotTv]

Can you do a video on area codes?

[@JustinLearnsThings]

I’ll definitely look into it! Thanks for watching! 🙌

[@noblinkreal]

How do we know where the provinces are?

[@alexmorales1419]

0:25 Did you forget to mention the Philadelphia 76er's also play at Wells Fargo Center at Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

[@gecko4878]

How could they missed it?

[@gecko4878]

How could they?

[@totalclone1317]

Could you make every name explained for the afl (Australian Football League) please!

[@JustinLearnsThings]

I’ll look at adding it to my list! Thanks for watching!

[@MrReese]

Isn't the ZIP+4 kind of redundant since you have the address anyway? So street name + number is about as detailed as it can get.

[@JustinLearnsThings]

I always wonder why we still put city/state if we have zip+4. I imagine the zip+4 in that case helps sort it better for delivery. You have the street and number but opposite sides of the street could be different +4 and I’m sure there’s a lot of efficiencies to be gained by sorting it hyper locally!

[@MrReese]

@@JustinLearnsThings I think city/state is very relevant for normal people writing and reading stuff because I doubt that everyone knows all the zip+4 codes :D. In addition, if you simply scan the address some sort of navigation will already show the driver exactly where it is gonna be anyway.

[@HugoKarlsson-fs4nu]

you should upload videos more often

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Thank you! Hope to be able to do quite a few this year! Thanks for watching!

[@Gallalad1]

This sounds similar to the postcodes in the UK or Eircodes in Ireland. Also obligatory FTF

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Thanks for watching!

[@principalmcvicker6530]

We need to go deeper. I want a code for my kitchen counter, my mail's true final destination

[@JustinLearnsThings]

That way, Amazon can drone deliver through the sunroof, right onto the counter! 😂

[@joshuafrias2415]

You know, now that I know how US zip codes work, I wonder now: how do zip codes work in other countries? Are they the same as over here or is it vastly different? Now there's a video idea.

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Yeah that’s definitely something I’ve thought about! I’m not sure what that looks like either, I think it’s pretty country dependent! I think the depth of coverage in the United States is a little unique, and that may imp have something to do with the post office being outlined in the constitution, giving it a pretty broad mandate for Mail delivery!

[@tomwise2831]

322 river front

[@illwhodi6462]

I swear I wondered this and how they work

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Thanks for watching!

[@brubru9663]

Why did you just mention the flyers in Wells Fargo center? What about the sixer?

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Yeah that’s my bad! Just missed it and never realized it in the edit 🤷‍♂️

[@brubru9663]

@@JustinLearnsThings everyone makes mistakes, like how I made one in my comment above

[@JustinLearnsThings]

@@brubru9663 For sure! Thanks for watching!

[@ZeFluffyNuphkin]

My name is Justin and I came specifically to learn things

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Welcome!

[@charleshunziker7416]

Zip+4 helped layoff employees

[@JustinLearnsThings]

I was watching jingle all the way recently and sinbad’s character was like “sorry I’ve been all messed up since that zip+4 thing” and i died lol I had never caught that line till this year!

[@RyanPlays74]

Have to update the mls team names

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Was there a name change since the last video came out? I know St. Louis was included in that video but I can’t think of any reaper instead of happen off the top of my head

[@noamemerson-fleming285]

The Atlanta Hawks bro

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Lol yup that one’s going to be getting comments for forever now! Don’t know how I didn’t catch that slip up…

[@TheCaptain14]

The Atlanta *Falcons

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Oof slip of the tongue, but I guess I’m stuck with that now 🤦‍♂️

[@alexmorales1419]

I know how much you like Flyers more then 76er's

[@JustinLearnsThings]

Haha was definitely unintentional… just a miss in my writing! I actually know very little about hockey and it’s been really interesting learning more about the histories of those teams!

[@Aang12966]

10:0000000000000

[@oriolephan]

Zip Codes aren't geographic... They just help the post office deliver mail.

[@codizzle]

They are very geographic… that’s HOW they help the post office.