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PLenz 3 days ago

Sometimes they're entire non geographic entities like the IRS

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mulmen 3 days ago | parent [-]

Or moving areas like aircraft carriers.

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PLenz 3 days ago | parent [-]

The military postal code system is seperate from the US post office's zip code system. Often (and easily!) conflated but actually operating in parallel. Made even more confusing because many U.S. based entities can be reached in both systems.

	▲	mulmen 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Neat! The military postal codes look like ZIP9s, is that a coincidence or is that just the interface with the USPS?