[geeks] Secret codes, was US Post Office Website broken again

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Tue Jul 21 10:57:00 CDT 2009


Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Dan Sikorski writes ...
> 
>> I was in radio shack a few weeks ago and was surprised when 
>> they asked 
>> for a phone number.  I had thought they ended that, but apparently at 
>> least that store still did.
> 
> Trader Joe's (a largely west-coast grocery chain) used to ask for zip codes;
> they used that to figure out where to build new stores.

Ah, now that's a smart usage.


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