How many are aware that your Zip-Code + four numbers could have changed with the new 911 readdressing? (East Stroudsburg: insurance)

[fisheye]

We did not know that ours changed last year. There should have been more information about the change in our news. They supposedly like us to use the whole nine digits. It is only the last four numbers that changed for us.

I found it hard to find out what the correct numbers. We received an insurance bill with the right new numbers. So I called to correct them – thinking that they made a mistake. They mentioned the 911 readdressing; but were not sure if it was their mistake. So they agreed to change the numbers back to the old Zip-Code. I tried calling our post office to find out who was correct and got almost no help. I tried calling a central PO and was told to go to the USPS web site and fill in my address: https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action There the correct new Zip-Code popped up.

I am just posting this because I am not sure if others are aware of the change? Of course; there is a chance that you were not changed?

If there are others that were not aware of this change, in our area, I will probably make this same post on the national forum. Perhaps we were the only ones that were oblivious to the change?

[MatildaLoo]

Originally Posted by fisheye

We did not know that ours changed last year. There should have been more information about the change in our news. They supposedly like us to use the whole nine digits. It is only the last four numbers that changed for us.

I found it hard to find out what the correct numbers. We received an insurance bill with the right new numbers. So I called to correct them – thinking that they made a mistake. They mentioned the 911 readdressing; but were not sure if it was their mistake. So they agreed to change the numbers back to the old Zip-Code. I tried calling our post office to find out who was correct and got almost no help. I tried calling a central PO and was told to go to the USPS web site and fill in my address: https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action There the correct new Zip-Code popped up.

I am just posting this because I am not sure if others are aware of the change? Of course; there is a chance that you were not changed?

If there are others that were not aware of this change, in our area, I will probably make this same post on the national forum. Perhaps we were the only ones that were oblivious to the change?

I wasn't part of 911 readdressing but my mother was, so I'll have to let her know because it is likely that her plus four has changed. Personally I've never used the plus four unless a form explicitly asks for it, and then I use the USPS website.

I have a suspicion it's just a trick by the postal service to get more hits on their site so they can make themselves feel better and feel like they haven't become obsolete.

[fisheye]

Originally Posted by MatildaLoo

I wasn't part of 911 readdressing but my mother was, so I'll have to let her know because it is likely that her plus four has changed. Personally I've never used the plus four unless a form explicitly asks for it, and then I use the USPS website.

I have a suspicion it's just a trick by the postal service to get more hits on their site so they can make themselves feel better and feel like they haven't become obsolete.

My feeling is that our PO's do not even like us calling to find our the correct information.

We do not use the last four either – except; we have address labels made up with the last four. We also have used them when asked. My wife just ran a new set of labels off after we got the word.

We just feel a little stupid that we were not aware.

[MatildaLoo]

Originally Posted by fisheye

My feeling is that our PO's do not even like us calling to find our the correct information.

We do not use the last four either – except; we have address labels made up with the last four. We also have used them when asked. My wife just ran a new set of labels off after we got the word.

We just feel a little stupid that we were not aware.

Don't feel stupid. I think most people aren't even aware that there are four extra digits on their zip code to begin with

[frank754]

I think the last 4 digits do have other significances too sometimes. Since a lot of us in the W-B area are 18702, when you sign online petitions to politicians they often request the last 4 digits as some of the people cross boundaries of jurisdiction in the same zip code.

[jtab4994]

I get all my mail at a PO Box, so my +4 didn't change. It never occurred to me that I could have a zip+4 at home. Never had a house number until the 911 project came along, either.

[jtab4994]

The USPS.com website doesn't like my new 911 address whether I say I'm in Shawnee 18356 or East Stroudsburg 18301 or 18302. Guess I'll stick with the PO Box zip code. And just when I thought I was "normal" having a house number and everything, the Post Office says they never heard of my address!

[MatildaLoo]

Originally Posted by jtab4994

The USPS.com website doesn't like my new 911 address whether I say I'm in Shawnee 18356 or East Stroudsburg 18301 or 18302. Guess I'll stick with the PO Box zip code. And just when I thought I was "normal" having a house number and everything, the Post Office says they never heard of my address!

I grew up on a rural route. My address was RR2 and then the box number. I had to explain any time I ordered something through mail order that I did not have a PO Box, that the RR stood for rural route and UPS/FedEx both knew that. Before the readdressing project, when I would order things online for my mother who still lives at the address, I'd have to finagle the address to make it appear like it was a street address or else online entry forms wouldn't accept it. Of course, since she is on a state route now her address is State Route XXX. Wondering if I'll have issues with that?