Best Answer: Their really isn't one correct answer to this question, I'll try to explain. Ill start with the home run that Mickey Mantle hit at Griffith Stadium in Washington on April 17, 1953. The entire baseball world was led to believe the ball had traveled 565 feet from home plate to the point where it landed.
What year did zip codes start?   In the US 2 digit postal codes started in 1943 because many of the regulay postal clerks were away fighting WWII and the government the codes would help the inexperienceâ¦d new clerks in sorting the mail. 5 digit Zip codes went into effect on July 1, 1963.
Postal Guide, first published in 1874. Most of the. preferred abbreviations in 1874 remained the. same for nearly the next 90 years. On July 1, 1963, the Post Office Department. implemented the five-digit ZIP Code, which was. placed after the state name in the last line of an.