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Article #20055Re: It's in "Fairfax"!
From: Jonathan Crawford
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 12:04
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 12:04
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In article <3542@tnc.UUCP>, Roger Firestone wrote: > > Where is McLean? (Or Oakton, Potomac, Great Falls, Bethesda, etc.?) > It's wherever the Postal Service says it is, unless you are referring > specifically to the limits of an incorporated municipality (and even > then, the USPS can make it larger than the town/city limits, as it has > with Fairfax and Vienna). And the USPS can move you on a moment's > notice to another postal delivery address. And does anybody understand the logic (or lack thereof) behind what postal zone you're located in? My wife and I are zoned as Jessup, but the Jessup post office is the 4th closest post office, with Savage, Columbia, and Laurel all closer. So why are we Jessup? Is there a method to this madness that I just don't understand? -- Jonathan Crawford Confused in...Jessup?!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10fa94,397d68fb2bf74631 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fa94,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-07-11 10:09:23 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!news.clark.net!not-for-mail From: arktech@clark.net (Jonathan Crawford) Newsgroups: dc.dining Subject: Re: It's in "Fairfax"! Date: 11 Jul 1994 08:04:17 -0400 Organization: Ark Technologies, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <DZB8kyPiEEbE058yn@clark.net> References: <2vkcer$4k0@access3.digex.net> <2vkj3h$7q7@newsflash.mitre.org> <3542@tnc.UUCP> NNTP-Posting-Host: clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit