ZIP codes unchanged on O'ahu — for now
Karen Blakeman, Honolulu Advertiser, Thursday, April 14, 2005
Egads. When was this proposed publicly? Was there a "comment period"? I must've missed it. Or rather, our local media must've missed it, or the USPS dropped the ball. I'll bet there would've been more of a... public response if it was covered better.
An April 5 letter to the mayor is accepted without comment and just passed around city departments "so they could prepare for the change"? The story breaks just because some residents got it by e-mail? Sheesh.
I don't want to live in 96889, man! I mean, 96789 just has personality!
Karen Blakeman, Honolulu Advertiser, Thursday, April 14, 2005
Residents of 18 outlying O'ahu communities, from Waimanalo to Hale'iwa to 'Ewa Beach and Pearl City, narrowly missed having the first three digits of their ZIP codes changed from 967 to 968. The U.S. Postal Service had planned to make the change on July 1, but ditched the effort yesterday... Census figures show that Hawai'i is the 14th-fastest growing state, and the Neighbor Islands are getting a lot of the increase. Standardizing of the O'ahu codes to 968 and letting the Neighbor Islands use 967 exclusively would have accommodated overall growth, according to Gonzales.
An April 5 letter to the mayor is accepted without comment and just passed around city departments "so they could prepare for the change"? The story breaks just because some residents got it by e-mail? Sheesh.
I don't want to live in 96889, man! I mean, 96789 just has personality!
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