The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has launched an online microsite celebrating and examining the history and development of Mr. Zip and the ZIP Code campaign. Introduced in 1963, ZIP Codes were ...

LEESBURG — In postal circles, Robert Aurand Moon was known as “Mr. ZIP.” Moon, who invented the U.S. Postal Service’s ZIP code system and later was director of delivery services for the entire nation, ...

The postal service may be in a financial vise right now, but fifty years ago it created an economic legacy–one now reportedly worth billions of dollars a year. On July 1, 1963, it introduced the ...

Someone whom I’ve known since elementary school celebrated his fiftieth birthday this week. On July 1, Mr. ZIP reached the half-century mark. His invention brought efficiency changes to the U.S.

Sure, there are some other celebrities who were born in 1963 (Brad Pitt, perhaps? Johnny Depp? How about Michael Jordan?) who have more name recognition, but none of them send you letters every day.

In postal circles, Robert Aurand Moon was known as “Mr. ZIP.” Mr. Moon, who invented the U.S. Postal Service’s ZIP code system and later was director of delivery services for the entire nation, died ...

Most kids I knew didn’t worry a lot about weirdo strangers bothering us in an early 1960s version of Nashua, especially if we stayed clear of certain neighborhoods our parents liked to call “rough” or ...

His face once adorned post offices across the county. He lives in obscurity now, but at one time his visage appeared in newspapers and on television. In his prime, he palled around with Ethel Merman.

Mr. ZIP, informally "Zippy", was a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and later by its successor, the United States Postal Service, to encourage the ...