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Mr. ZIP was a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and in the 1970s by its successor, the United States Postal Service, to encourage the general public to include the ZIP Code in all mailings.

The Post Office had little difficulty in getting mass mailers to use the ZIP Code as they could require its use in order to receive preferential mailing rates, which it soon did. However, there was some resistance to using it by the general public who occasionally mailed items, almost invariably at the full First Class Mail rate, which by regulation had to be delivered if at all possible and feasible. This was particularly true of older mailers. Mr. ZIP was the Post Office's answer to this, apparently to reach small children to know to always use the ZIP Code as they got older, and also to encourage their parents and grandparents to do so.

Mr. ZIP was a caricature of a mail carrier, wide-eyed and drawn with his letter bag trailing him in such a way as to imply his travelling at extreme speed, and sometimes holding on to his hat with his free hand. His hair was straight, but his skin was somewhat orange, making him non racially-identifiable. His limbs were very thin, almost like those of a stick figure. He was used especially on posters promoting ZIP Code use. The character seems largely to have been phased out by the late 1970s, but was copyrighted by the Post Office, which still retains all rights to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._ZIP

 

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Stamps with Mr. Zip

Scott No.

Date of Issue

 

#1242

 10.1.1964

Sam Houston

#1243

 19.3.1964

Charles M. Russel

#1247

 15.6.1964

New Jersey Tercentenary

#1249

 1.8.1964

Register and Vote

#1250

 14.8.1964

Shakespeare

#1251

 11.9.1964

Drs. William and Charles Mayo

#1258

 21.11.1964

Verrazano - Narrows bridge

#1260

 15.12.1964

Amateur Radio

#1182

 9.4.1965

Appomatox

#1262

 15.2.1965

Physical Fitness - Sokol

#1263

 1.4.1965

Crusade Against Cancer

#1264

 13.5.1965

Churchil Memorial

#1267

 2.7.1965

Salvation Army

#1268

 17.7.1965

Dante Alighieri

#1269

 10.8.1965

Herbert Hoover

#1271

 28.8.1965

Settlement of Florida

#1273

 17.9.1965

John Singleton Copley

#1308

 16.4.1966

Indiana Statehood Sesquicentennial

#1309

 2.5.1966

American Circus

#1312

 1.7.1966

175th Anniversary, Bill of Rights

#1313

 30.7.1966

Polish Millennium

#1315

 29.8.1966

Marine Corp Reserve

#1317

 24.9.1966

American Folklore

#1319

 21.10.1966

Great River Road

#1320

 26.10.1966

Savings Bond - Servicemen

#1323

 17.4.1967

National Grange

#1327

 12.7.1967

Henry David Thoreau

#1329

 1.8.1967

Voice of America

#1333

 2.10.1967

Urban Planning

#1334

 6.10.1967

50th Anniveresary, Finnish Independence

#1336

 6.11.1967

Christmas

#C70

 20.3.1967

Alaska Purchase

#1339

 12.2.1968

150th Anniversary, Illinois Statehood

#1340

 30.3.1968

HemisFair '68

#1343

 17.5.1968

Law & Order

#1344

 27.6.1968

Register and Vote

#1355

 11.9.1968

Walt Disney

#1359

 9.10.1968

Leif Erikson

#1361

 18.10.1968

John Trumbull

#1364

 4.11.1968

American Indian

#1369

 15.3.1969

50th Anniversary, American Legion

#1370

 1.5.1969

American Folklore - Grandma Moses

#1371

 5.5.1969

Apollo 8

#1373

 16.7.1969

200th Anniversary, California Settlement

#1380

 22.9.1969

Dartmouth College Case

#1383

 14.10.1969

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#1385

 20.11.1969

Hope for Crippled

#1386

 3.12.1969

William M. Harnett

#1405

 22.8.1970

Edgar Lee Masters

#1414

 5.11.1970

Christmas

#1420

 21.11.1970

Landing of the Pilgrims

#1421

 24.11.1970

50th Anniversary, Disabled Veteransof America

#1422

 24.11.1970

Honoring US Servicemen

#1423

 16.1.1971

American Wool Industry

#1424

 26.1.1971

General Douglas McArthur

#1432

 4.7.1971

American Revolution Bicentennial

#1436

 28.8.1971

Emily Dickenson

#1437

 12.9.1971

450th Anniversary, San Juan, Puerto Rico

#1438

 5.10.1971

Prevent Drug Abuse

#1439

 27.10.1971

CARE

#1444-5

 10.11.1971

Christmas

#1446

 3.2.1972

Sidney Lanier

#1447

 11.2.1972

Peace Corps

#1453

 1.3.1972

National Park stem Centennial

#1455

 18.3.1972

Family Planning

#1469

 9.10.1972

Osteopathic Medicine

#1470

 13.10.1972

American Folklore - Tom Sawyer

#1471-2

 9.11.1972

Christmas

#C84

 3.5.1972

National Park stem Centennial

#1488

 23.3.1973

Postal Service Employees

#1507-8

 7.11.1973

Christmas

#1526

 26.3.1974

Robert Frost

#1530, #1533,

#1534, #1537

 6.6.1974

Centenary, UPU

#1542

 12.6.1974

Kentucky Settlement

#1547

 23.9.1974

Energy Conservation

#1548

 10.10.1974

American Folklore - Legend of Sleepy Hollow

#1549

 13.10.1974

Retarded Children

#1550

 23.10.1974

Christmas

#1553

 10.2.1975

American Arts - Benjamin West

#1554

 1.5.1975

American Arts - Paul Laurence Dunbar

#1564

 17.6.1975

200th Anniversary, Battle of Bunker Hill

#1565-8

 4.7.1975

Military Uniforms

#1579-80

 14.10.1975

Christmas

#1629, #1631

 1.1.1976

American Bicentennial

#1692-3

 4.7.1976

American Bicentennial

#1695-8

 16.7.1976

Olympic Games

#1699

 18.8.1976

Clara Maas

#1700

 18.9.1976

Adolph s. Ochs

#1704

 3.1.1977

American Bicentennial

#1706-9

 13.4.1977

American Folk Art - Pottery

#1711

 21.5.1977

Colorado Statehood

#1716

 13.6.1977

Marquis de Lafayette

#1731

 6.1.1978

Carl Sandburg

#1732-3

 20.1.1978

Captain Cook

#1744

 1.2.1978

Black Heritage

#1753

 4.5.1978

American Bicentennial

#1754

 18.5.1978

Early Cancer Detection

#1755

 24.5.1978

Performing Arts - Jimmie Rodgers

#1756

 3.7.1978

Performing Arts - George M. Cohan

#1757d, #1757h

 10.6.1978

CAPEX

#1758

 26.6.1978

Photography

#1760-3

 26.8.1978

American Owls

#1770

 12.1.1979

Robert F. Kennedy

#1771

 13.1.1979

Black Heritage

#1773

 27.2.1979

John Steinbeck

#1774

 4.3.1979

Albert Einstein

#1775-8

 19.4.1979

American Folk Art - Pennlvania Toleware

#1779-82

 4.6.1979

American Architecture

#1783-6

 7.6.1979

Endangered Flora

#1788

 9.8.1979

Special Olympics

#1789

 23.9.1979

John Paul Jones

#1790

 5.9.1979

Olympics

#1801

 4.11.1979

Performing Arts - Will Rogers

#1803

 29.1.1980

Performing Arts - W. C. Fields

#1804

 15.2.1980

Black Heritage

#1805, #1810,  1810a

 25.2.1980

Letter Writing

#1821

 10.4.1980

Frances Perkins

#1823

 31.5.1980

Emily Bissell

#1824

 27.6.1980

Helen Keller

#1825

 21.7.1980

Veterans Administration

#1826

 23.7.1980

General Bernardo de Galvez

#1827-30

 26.8.1980

Coral Reefs

#1831

 1.9.1980

Organized Labor

#1832

 5.9.1980

Edith Wharton

#1833

 12.9.1980

American Education

#1834-7

 25.9.1980

American Folk Art - Pacific Northwest Indian Masks

#1842

 31.10.1980

Christmas

#C98

 13.10.1980

Philip Mazzei

#1874

 4.1.1981

Everett Dirksen

#1875

 30.1.1981

Black Heritage

#1876-9

 23.4.1981

Flowers

#1910

 1.5.1981

American Red Cross Centennial

#1911

 8.5.1981

Savings and Loan Sesquicentennial

#1912, #1915-6, #1919

 21.5.1981

Space Achievement

#1921-4

 26.6.1981

Preservation of Wildlife Habitats

#1926

 10.7.1981

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#1932-3

 22.9.1981

Athletes

#1941

 5.11.1981

John Hanson

#1950

 30.1.1982

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#1952

 22.2.1982

George Washington

#1953, #1962, #1993, #2002

 14.4.1982

State Birds and Flowers

#2010

 30.4.1982

Horatio Alger

#2012

 8.6.1982

Performing Arts - John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore

#2013

 10.6.1982

Dr. Mary E. Walker

#2015

 13.7.1982

America's Libraries

#2016

 2.8.1982

Jackie Robinson

#2026

 3.11.1982

Christmas

#2031

 19.1.1983

Science and Industry

#2038

 13.4.1983

Joseph Priestly

#2044

 9.6.1983

Scott Joplin

#2046

 6.7.1983

George Herman Ruth

#2047

 8.7.1983

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#2053

 9.9.1983

Civil Service

#2063

 28.10.1983

Christmas

#2065

 1.11.1983

Martin Luther

#C101-4

 17.6.1983

1984 Olympic Games

#2066

 3.1.1984

25th Anniversary, alaskan Statehood

#2067-70

 6.1.1984

Winter Olympic Games

#2071

 12.1.1984

50th Anniversary FDIC

#2072

 31.1.1984

Love

#2073

 1.2.1984

Carter G. Woodson

#2074

 6.2.1984

Soil and Water Conservation

#2075

 10.2.1984

50th Anniversary, Credit Union Act

#2081

 16.4.1984

National Archives

#2082-5

 4.5.1984

1984 Los Angeles Olympics

#2088

 23.5.1984

Performing Arts - Douglas Fairbanks

#2089

 24.5.1984

Jim Thorpe

#2090

 6.6.1984

Performing Arts - John McCormack

#2091

 26.6.1984

25th Anniversary, St. Lawrence Seaway

#2093

 13.7.1984

Roanoke Voyages

#2094

 1.8.1984

Herman Melville

#2095

 6.8.1984

Horace Moses

#2096

 13.8.1984

Smokey the Bear

#2097

 17.8.1984

Roberto Clemente

#2102

 26.9.1984

Crime Prevention

#2104

 1.10.1984

Family Unity

#2105

 11.10.1984

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2106

 16.10.1984

Nation of Readers

#2107-8

 30.10.1984

Christmas

#2109

 10.11.1984

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

#2110

 23.1.1985

Performing Arts - Jerome Kern

#2137

 5.3.1985

Black Heritage

#2143

 17.4.1985

Love

#2146

 14.6.1985

Abigail Adams

#2159

 1.10.1985

Public Education in America

#2165

 30.10.1985

Christmas


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