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In 1963 the Post Office Department introduced the Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP) Code as a means to allow mail sorting methods to become faster and eventually be automated, but the innovation also created unimagined socio-economic benefits as an organizing and enabling device.

The ZIP code 00001 is one of more than 42,000 five-digit ZIP Codes in the United States. ZIP area 00001 is located in the Dillingham Census Area, state of Alaska.

The ZIP in ZIP Code stands for Zone Improvement Plan, and it was introduced July 1, 1963, as part of a larger Postal Service Nationwide Improved Mail Service (NIMS) plan to improve the speed of mail delivery.

Modern postal codes were first introduced in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in December 1932, but the system was abandoned in 1939. The next country to introduce postal codes was Germany in 1941, followed by Singapore in 1950, Argentina in 1958, the United States in 1963 and Switzerland in 1964.

When the U.S. Post Office formally instituted the zip code on July 1, 1963, it was billed as a way to expedite the movement of mail across a vast continent. The zip code—an acronym for Zoning Improvement Program—had its roots during World War II, ing to geographer Gregory Smith.

[2] The first three digits of the ZIP code were invented by Robert A. Moon, who came up with a system for dividing the country into approximately 900 geographical areas. Eventually, H. Bentley Hahn contributed the fourth and fifth digits, which added further precision to geographic locales.

Harold Wilcox, an art director working with American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) in New York City, created the symbol, whose original name was Mr. P.O. Zone. Renamed Mr. ZIP, the character was used to advertise the efficiency of the new service across the country.