Posted by Harlan Messinger on 11/27/06 18:04

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> I use US/Canadian postal codes in one application of mine, and I got the
> databases, US: purloined from employer, and CDN: online for ~$150.00US
> for a download. It may have been from this site:
> http://www.zipcodeworld.com/postalcodepremium.htm with lat/lon

It amazes me that one should have to pay for this information. The
entire US five-digit ZIP code list, supplied as a CSV file, assuming a
maximum of 33 bytes per code for the code itself, the city, and the
state, would be less than 3.3MB. This would hardly tax the USPS web site.

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