The situation has caused confusion among people who can't find the 54-square-mile township on road maps, which often use postal zones to locate place names.

In fact, one season the school district itself forgot about those of us in my postal zone who belong to it.

It once had a post office, but is now included in the Milan, Ohio postal zone (44846).

Queens incorporated a group of independent towns, and those separate identities are still reflected in today's postal zones.

This was before the postal zones had come in.

The postal service started the use of postal zones for large cities in 1943.

For postal administration the city is divided into postal zones.

The "16" was the number of the postal zone within the city.

Great Neck has five postal zones (11020-11024) and one school district.

The first digit is for a large postal zone, as follows: