POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : US ZIP Codes and SSN's : Re: US ZIP Codes and SSN's Server Time
5 Sep 2024 15:23:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: US ZIP Codes and SSN's  
From: Darren New
Date: 21 Aug 2009 11:43:39
Message: <4a8ec0ab@news.povray.org>
Daniel Bastos wrote:
> In article <4a8e31f1@news.povray.org>,
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> That's not very sequential if New York is allocating from batch 123-XX-XXXX 
>> by hand at the same time, yes?
> 
> Being a national number, could it be centralized?

Now, yes. Back in the 1920's when it was invented? Probably not. It wouldn't 
have even been efficient to centralize it if everyone was sitting in the 
same room processing the paperwork. Since that was unnecessary, why would you?

That's what I'm trying to express.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."


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