[Info-vax] OT: ZIP/Postal code geo-coordinates

[Alfred Falk]

"John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)" <a at nonymous.com> wrote in
news:549e2$49edce8b$45c4bfa2$30574 at TEKSAVVY.COM-Free: 

> 
> "Michael Moroney" <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote in message 
> news:gsj30e$pqo$1 at pcls6.std.com...
>> "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)" <a at nonymous.com> writes:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>> BTW is T0K 0Y0 a valid Canadian zip code? (the zip code for the
>> largest city in Japan? :-) )  I know how H0H 0H0 is used around
>> Christmastime. 
> 
> It was valid at on point in time - someplace in Alberta. But it's no
> longer assigned. 

When I first arrived at UofAlberta in 1974, someone had put up a note a 
chalkboard that "TOY 0K0 is Xxxxx, Alberta".  I no longer remember the 
town, unfortunatly.  By the time I possesed a Postal Code directory in 
1978, T0K 0Y0 was not listed.

Mildly amusing recollection:  When postal codes were introduced Canada-
wide (after some trials in western provinces) ca. 1973, there we stories 
of some business in Toronto or Montreal (in the usual eastern-centric 
view of the country) that wasn't getting it's mail because their code 
was mis-read as "Tokyo".  One version even made CBC National News.  
Showed complete failure to grasp the system, of course: "T" is Alberta 
and "TO" is rural Alberta.



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