It's very easy to chalk up certain facets of our lives to just being "the way it's always been." From daylight savings time to time zones, most of us don't even give a second thought to the meaning ...

On July 1, 1963, the U.S. Post Office Department introduced the ZIP code program to get a handle on the heaping surplus of mail. Today, those five digits represent much more for American society. Back ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Zone Improvement Plan, the network of ZIP codes we use for everything from mail delivery to credit card security. The U.S. Postal Service began using the ...

What do zip codes tell us about the spread of the coronavirus? As more detailed information becomes available through the state Department of Health, the number of Pennsylvania’s coronavirus positive ...