Nine digit zip codes

[Peter Haworth]

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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