Before we beigin, a ZIP Code is a postal code utilized by the United States Postal Service (USPS). Presented in 1963, the essential arrangement comprised of five digits. In 1983, a drawn out ZIP+4 code was presented; it incorporated the five digits of the ZIP Code, trailed by a dash and four digits that assigned a more explicit area. In some countries, zipcode term in an alien term and instead postal codes term is used. ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan which does not make any sense in todays world. But the context was more relevant when the term was coined in past.
Zipcode Cities Database is the crux of any business solution dealing with ecommerce or online delivery solutions. Without the right dataset, it would be difficult to capture your customer delivery estimates or offer them solutions around your business needs. Clients wanted to aggregate data from their own ecommerce platform, and competitors' platforms to improve their pricing strategy based on locations. We provide the data in tab delimited files for zipcodes database with easy instructions to load the data into a MySQL or Microsoft SQL. You are also free to use any programming language of your choice to read the data from the flat files. As well, a rich text open source editor like Notepad++ can also be used to open the flat files to view postal codes for any city in the flat files. Each zipcode in the database is associated with its city, country and administrative division(also referred at state in some countries) to reduce the number of ambiguities.The dataset schema in published on this same page for your reference.
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