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TJ:
The United States Postal Service, aka the US Post Office, did not use mail zip codes, in 1967, on their post offices. Small cities and larger ones did have postal zones prior to the days of the zip codes.

http://www.usps.com/history/his2_75.htm


--- Quote ---ZIP Code began on July 1, 1963, as scheduled. Use of the new code was not mandatory at first for anyone, but, in 1967, the Post Office required mailers of second- and third-class bulk mail to presort by ZIP Code. Although the public and mailers alike adapted well to its use, it was not enough.
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MaineWriter:

--- Quote from: Becky on May 01, 2006, 06:05:06 pm ---
But also in the film did you notice that the first time Ennis goes to the post office to post the "You Bet" post card the numbers aren't there. But when he goes to recieve the "DECEASED" post card "82501" is above the door. Do you think this is a goof? Or was that done for a reason? ???



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Becky,
I think that was one of the very specific, but very subtle things done to show the passage of time. As TJ notes, zip codes came into use in 1963 but it wasn't until many years later that you started seeing them on the outside of post offices. I noticed it immediately in my very first viewing (no zip in 67, it was there in 83) and it immediately registered to me as time passing. You're not in the US, you're not used to our post offices.
Leslie

j.U.d.E.:
Another goof? You might not want to read on..

Mm, slightly off-topic, but did any one notice - or is it me and my blurred vision - but the postcards from Jack and Ennis seem to have the same handwriting (to me that is..). A goof?

Another goof - totally off-topic (of this thread).. again.. don't read on, if you don't want to know.. but after the motel scene when Ennis comes back to his house to collect his fishing stuff and drives off with Jack, it looks like there is only one person - the driver - in the truck. Yet, when they arrive at destination Ennis gets out of the passenger seat. Am I seeing ghosts.. or rather not seeing something..

~ j U d E

MaineWriter:

--- Quote from: JudeW on May 02, 2006, 12:55:10 pm ---Another goof? You might not want to read on..

Mm, slightly off-topic, but did any one notice - or is it me and my blurred vision - but the postcards from Jack and Ennis seem to have the same handwriting (to me that is..). A goof?


~ j U d E

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Yes, their handwriting appears similar, but I always saw it as sort of immature...still writing like you might have in 7th or 8th grade, that sort of loopy, childish look. It makes sense (to me) for both of them to write that way.

serious crayons:
By the way, I have a good friend who is a postal carrier. According to her:

-- The PO would never just stamp DECEASED on a piece of mail and send it back. (Not sure if she's right on this -- she wasn't working for the postal service in 1983).

-- Postal carriers DO read post cards (of course). Ennis and Jack were circumspect on their cards, but as I mentioned on another thread yesterday, if Ennis is going to get paranoid about someone seeing them talking in the driveway, why wouldn't he worry about this?

But maybe those are just artistic-license issues.

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