OAK PARK FIGHT GETS SOME ZIP : LETTERS WILL VOUCH FOR VENTURA COUNTY LOCATION.Byline: Michael Coit Daily News Staff Writer Community leaders have won a small battle in their fight for an Oak Park ZIP code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. , with the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. issuing letters stating the addressee (communications) addressee - One to whom something is addressed. E.g. "The To, CC, and BCC headers list the addressees of the e-mail message". Normally an addressee will eventually be a recipient, unless there is a failure at some point (an e-mail "bounces") or the message is is a Ventura County - not a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County - resident. The informational letter, sent to all 5,400 homes in the unincorporated community, allows residents to present proof of where they live when shopping for insurance, registering motor vehicles and partaking in other activities where prices are linked to ZIP codes. Oak Park, however, still shares a ZIP code with neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. Agoura Hills. ``It's something. Hopefully it will be some small help,'' said Supervisor Frank Schillo, who has pushed the Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval on the ZIP code issue for nearly two years. ``While it's not the solution, we're showing we're going to keep at it.'' Oak Park, a community of more than 10,000 people, has shared a ZIP code with Agoura Hills since 1965. Because Oak Park shares a ZIP code with a Los Angeles County city, residents frequently find themselves overcharged. Residents have dealt for years with discrepancies in sales taxes sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. , motor vehicle registration fees and insurance premiums, officials said. Because many retailers set up their computer systems using ZIP code designators, it can cause confusion with sales tax charges. If retailers report sales as Los Angeles County sales, the state Board of Equalization In communications, techniques used to reduce distortion and compensate for signal loss (attenuation) over long distances. sends the allocated amount of sales tax revenue to Los Angeles County and not Ventura County. Postal Service officials have twice turned down requests to give the community its own ZIP code, stating that the new code would not save money or improve customer service. Earlier this year, Postal Service officials agreed to pay the cost of printing and mailing the informational letter to residents. Terri Bouffiou, a spokeswoman, has said the letter will give people in Oak Park a written record of their correct address and explain that they are Ventura County residents. Schillo said the next step in the fight for a five-digit ZIP code to distinguish Oak Park from Los Angeles County will come after the November election. The region will get a new congressional representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Schillo said he will make sure the ZIP code issue gets attention in Washington, D.C. ``I think they do hope that we just go away,'' Schillo said of Postal Service officials. ``They should be serving their customers,'' he said. ``People want to live (in Oak Park) and they want to have some identity of their own.'' |
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