Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 11/27/06 19:02

In alt.html, Harlan Messinger wrote:

> 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.

I'm in agreement. But I guess bidness is bidness...

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