This issue is not limited to Sesame:
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National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" announced that the post office had begun a new 'portable zip codes' program. This program, inspired by an FCC ruling that allowed phone users to take their phone number with them when they moved, would allow people to also take their zip code with them when they moved, no matter where they moved to. It was hoped that with this new program zip codes would come to symbolize "a citizen's place in the demographic, rather than geographic, landscape." Assistant Postmaster General Lester Crandall was quoted as saying, "Every year millions of Americans are on the go: People who must relocate for work or other reasons. Those people may have been quite attached to their original homes or an adopted town or city of residence. For them this innovative measure will serve as an umbilical cord to the place they love best."

Has anyone else already started work on this? 
Any suggestions on how we should modify our Zip Code databases/lookups to support this?




coincidence that i posted this on 04/01?

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coincidence that i posted this on 04/01?

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But the zip code article did make me wonder, how will Alec be impacted by this proposal?

London Times announced that the Department of Transport had finalized a plan to ease congestion on the M25, the circular highway surrounding London. The capacity of the road would be doubled by making the traffic on both carriageways travel in the same direction. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays the traffic would travel clockwise; while on Tuesdays and Thursdays it would travel anti-clockwise. The plan would not operate on weekends. It was said that the scheme was almost certain to meet with the cabinet's approval, despite voices of protest coming from some quarters. One of the protestors included a spokesman for Labour Transport who reportedly warned that "Many drivers already have trouble telling their left from their right." Also, a resident of Swanley, Kent was quoted as saying, "Villagers use the motorway to make shopping trips to Orpington. On some days this will be a journey of two miles, and on others a journey of 117 miles. The scheme is lunatic."


And I should also provide a link to today's Google's announcement: http://www.google.com/tisp/

coincidence that this was also posted on 04/01?

You raise some good questions Robert.
But perhaps in your wisdom, you can provide the answers to these quandries.  Which is correct?

Thou shalt not steal
OR
God helps those who help themselves 

He who hesitates is lost
OR
Look before you leap   

Birds of a feather flock together
OR
Opposites attract 


From the one of the greatest philosophers, Roseanne Roseannadanna:
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