Fabulous Fibber Promo

[Travis]

Just listened to the Fabulous Fibber promo on the Jingles page and was reminded of how simple it was to send mail to radio stations in the early '60s. Listen to the promo and note the mailing address for WAKY. All one had to do to participate in the contest was to send a postcard or letter to:

Fabulous Fibber
WAKY Louisville

That was it. No numeric address, no street and no zip code. Just the 2 lines above is all it took to get the card/letter to WAKY. I guess everyone at the post office listened to WAKY and knew where the station was located.

Yup. Sometimes I feel I was born too late.

[Mike Griffin]

The post office didn't have zip codes until 1963. Around the same time, stamps went from 4 to 5 cents. In Indiana there was no sales tax. Around the same time Indiana (where I live) added a 2 cent sales tax. Now it's 6 cents. The US began to make some poor decisions about Vietnam, President Kennedy was assassinated, General McArthur died the following year, Chuck Berry got busted for MJ, Jack Sanders was run out of town, then there was Richard Speck, Charles Whitman, and of course the Manson family. The Beatles broke up, Watergate, Elvis became a prescription drug addict and died, John Lennon was murdered, hostages were taken in Iran, Ollie North maligned, Ross Perot lost his bid to be President Clintion is confused about what sex is...the list continues.

The post office setting up zip codes unleashed a whole-lot of evil things. Now it's zip+four. I shudder to think what evil is in store. It's time we demand the removal of zip codes from our mail system.