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Re: It's in "Fairfax"!

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From: Jonathan Crawford
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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Subject: Re: It's in "Fairfax"!
Date: 11 Jul 1994 08:04:17 -0400
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