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Old 03-15-2016, 07:10 AM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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Please. This is less Brookhaven's fault and more of a f**k up by the Post Office.
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Old 03-15-2016, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, and Raleigh
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Stuff like this is why I voted against Brookhaven in the first place.
I can see exactly why. All of these all over the place municipalities is just the start of this because nobody ever thinks about the consequences of no thoughts on long-term planning while rushing to achieve short-term/instantaneous results.
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Old 03-15-2016, 08:40 AM
 
Location: Duluth, GA
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All of these all over the place municipalities is just the start of this because nobody ever thinks about the consequences of no thoughts on long-term planning while rushing to achieve short-term/instantaneous results.
Are you suggesting that instant gratification has consequences even on a municipal level?
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Old 03-15-2016, 08:54 AM
 
Location: n/a
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As someone from a boring grid-like area where every municipality has had it's own easily delineated and long standing zip code and post office, this whole kerfuffle strikes me as somewhat hilarious yet charmingly and quaintly southern.

It's almost as if it's sweetly confusing on purpose, which is pretty cool in this digital age.
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Old 03-15-2016, 09:19 AM
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Interesting, I hadn't heard about this.

We are in Brookhaven and have kept Atlanta as our mailing address, just to keep things simple. When I shop online, the site often autochanges the shipping address to Brookhaven though. As jsvh said, the city name doesn't matter as long as you have the 30319 on there.
The city doesn't matter. Somebody whining about nothing again.

When we lived in Texas our city got post office approval to put the city's name instead of Houston. But it still got there if you put Houston. And you could still put Houston if you were in the Houston part of the zip.
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Old 03-15-2016, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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The zip codes in Atlanta never made much sense in the first place. Many need to be redrawn.
Well, at least in the north suburbs, they made sense pre-2005, when Sandy Springs incorporated- then tons more new cities incorporated across the metro. So now it's a big confusing mix of zip codes that cross city and county lines, and a lot of alternate acceptable addresses/city names within the zip.

I'd say they should start from scratch and fix it all, but the problem with it is that I believe they're actually tied to where the Post Office locations physically are located/centered.
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Old 03-15-2016, 09:23 AM
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That's the incompetence of Fulton County. That causes problems in all their lives. The car problem wouldn't happen in a competent county. Zip codes are not confined to county lines.
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Old 03-15-2016, 09:37 AM
 
Location: Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, and Raleigh
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That's the incompetence of Fulton County. That causes problems in all their lives. The car problem wouldn't happen in a competent county. Zip codes are not confined to county lines.
How is this Fulton County's fault? This is something that should have been cleared up on a federal level prior anything because zipcodes are assigned by the US Postal Service and the shapefiles for the boundaries are created the US Census Bureau. If something is not registering because a recently created municipality in Dekalb County lobbied for all of a zipcode to be classified under their name then it is more the fault of the federal government than the local government.
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Old 03-15-2016, 09:43 AM
 
Location: Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, and Raleigh
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Are you suggesting that instant gratification has consequences even on a municipal level?
Exactly that.
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Old 03-15-2016, 09:47 AM
 
Location: ATL by way of Los Angeles
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The zip codes in Atlanta never made much sense in the first place. Many need to be redrawn.
I agree. Most of the zip codes in unincorporated areas in Gwinnett and DeKalb definitely need to be reviewed and redrawn. It is goofy to have a Decatur mailing address when your home is physically much closer to Stone Mountain, Lithonia, or even an unincorporated area with its own zip code and post office (i.e. Ellenwood).
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