ANN Getting Nine digit zip codes

[Jim Hurley]

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>Message: 16
>Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:16:06 -0500
>From: Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com>
>Subject: Re: ANN Getting Nine digit zip codes
>To: Use Revolution List <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>Message-ID: <BE8544E6.19327%kray at sonsothunder.com>
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>On 4/15/05 8:07 AM, "Jim Hurley" <jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:
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>>  My thanks to all who have taken the time to take the time, i.e.
>>  report the time to run Getting bar codes.
>>
>>  It looks like this is quite viable for large DB, if one has broad
>>  band--or patience.
>
>If you want something faster, you can always download a static Zip Code DB -
>there are many out there, even some that have subscriptions. Here's a free
>one:
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>http://www.thedigitalmapstore.com/Free_Stuff/ZIP_Code_Database/zip_code_data
>base.html
>
>HTH,
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software
>Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>Email: kray at sonsothunder.com


Ken,

Definitely interested. Does this give the nine digit code?  I got an 
error message from your line: "404 not found." Now that's cryptic.

I did find some zip codes at 
http://www.thedigitalmapstore.com/Free_Stuff/ZIP_Code_Database/

They appear to be the 5 digit codes.

What I'm trying to do is generate some barcodes for my neighborhood 
association to cut mailing costs, so I already have the 5 digit 
codes. But to get USPS pre-sorted discount I need to get the expanded 
code from 5 digit code to the nine digit code from the USPS web site. 
Using Run Rev's   "post" to myAddreessesAnd5digitZipCodes to the USPS 
url I get the 9 digit zip for each 5 digit zip.  Fortunately I only 
need to do this once so the speed is not so important.

I've got the barcode font now and it looks like I can produce the 
barcoded labels within Run Rev. (A little anxious about the printing 
precision required to print labels.)  There is some coding to get the 
barcode. You need to add the last two letters of the address to the 
zip  and a checksum at the end. Pretty simple.

I think this sort of thing might be generally useful. There are lots 
of services that do this, and lots of software, but at a price. But 
who needs them? We have Run Rev.  A TOOL FOR ALL SEASONS!

Jim