In Peanuts, an unseen adult character is shown to GREATLY overreact to the institution of zip codes....

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In Peanuts, an unseen adult character is shown to GREATLY overreact to the institution of zip codes. Was this reflective of a real thought process that people had at the time or just something that Charles Schulz thought was funny?

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In Peanuts, the short lived character 555 95472, along with his sisters 3 and 4, was a victim of their dad's frustration at how everyone was being numbered, and their dad decided that if everything was going to be numbered anyway then they may as well take on their zip code as their last name and numbers for first names. (It's funnier in the strip.) Did people really have strong feelings about the institution of zip codes? Was this part of a larger trend of things being numbered (area codes, ID numbers, Idunno...)? Or is it just another contextless Peanuts joke like the kite in the tree?

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