People Reminisce On These Everyday Items That Are Now a Part of History

What do you get when you mix bureaucracy and a need for postal efficiency? Zip codes, baby! And in 1967, the world was introduced to this revolutionary new way of sorting mail, thanks to an original notice that’s as retro as a lava lamp. Can you imagine the excitement in the air as people first learned about this newfangled concept?

“What’s a zip code? Is it like a secret code for mailmen?” they must have wondered. Little did they know, their letters would never be the same again. No more getting lost in a sea of envelopes! No more accidentally sending your grandma’s birthday card to the wrong state! Zip codes were the future, and everyone knew it.