Click to open image viewer. This plywood form was cut to the shape of Mr. ZIP, the marketing tool used by the Post Office Department to encourage the use of ZIP codes. The printed image of Mr. ZIP is ...

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 ...

The ZIP Code was launched 60 years ago this month as part of a program of improvements to increase postal delivery speed. At the time, Americans were already struggling to adapt to three-digit area ...

Over the summer, CBS News’s “Sunday Morning” did a piece celebrating the anniversary of the U.S. Zip code. A commercial explaining how to use the Zip code showed a sample letter addressed to “Anywhere ...

Moonbug Entertainment and the United States Postal Service (USPS) have launched a second season of Mail with Mr. ZIP on YouTube, with the support of TRAVERSE32. “Families connected with Mr. ZIP in ...