Nine digit zip codes

[Peter Haworth]

Yep, makes sense, especially if they sell those zip+4 lists.

Kind of related, has anyone had any experience with selecting zip  
codes based on a given zip code and a radius from it?  A mailing list  
I use has that feature to target newsletters and would be a handy  
function to have.  I'm guessing it must have some sort of latitude/ 
longitude calculation in there.

Pete Haworth

On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> Right, but not a lot from one place. I think their acceptable use  
> would be under 30 or 40 hits a day from one IP, but if they get  
> thousands, I think someone might contact you. They have some kind of  
> published Acceptable Use policy on the site don't they? If not, then  
> I guess you are in the clear.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> USPS has a zip code lookup feature on their web site and seems like  
>> they would expect a lot of people using it....
>>
>> Pete Haworth
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>>
>>> Also be advised that too many hits from one place may result in  
>>> alarms going off. It may have changes since I thought about doing  
>>> this way back when, but they offered this site as a way for the  
>>> every day user to get a zip+4, not for a commercial app to do it  
>>> on the cheap as a way to avoid paying for the zip+4 database,  
>>> which back then at least they charged you for.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 27, 2010, at 12:50 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you want to do it the 'right' way you might consider getting  
>>>> an API
>>>> key....then you can be sure it will continuously work - screen  
>>>> scraping may
>>>> fail if they change the website.
>>>>
>>>> The  USPS appears to have extensive APIs available - looks like  
>>>> it talks
>>>> XML..
>>>>
>>>> http://www.usps.com/webtools/address.htm
>>>>
>>>> http://www.usps.com/webtools/htm/Development-Guide-v3-0b.htm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 27 November 2010 09:53, James Hurley  
>>>> <jhurley0305 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I sent this message a while back, but I suspect it got lost in the
>>>>> RunRev-LiveCode changeover.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the USPS web site (http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/) it is possible  
>>>>> by
>>>>> entering the street address, the city and the state to obtain  
>>>>> the 9 digit
>>>>> zip code for that address.
>>>>>
>>>>> This may be naive, but is it possible to do this from within  
>>>>> LiveCode by
>>>>> script?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stephen Barncard
>>>> San Francisco Ca. USA
>>>>
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