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You know how to use zip() as well as how to print out values from a zip object. Excellent! Let's play around with zip() a little more. There is no unzip function for doing the reverse of what zip() ...

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The humble ZIP Code shows up in all kinds of surprising places. Planet Money looks at how it was born, how it transformed the mail and talks to one researcher who argues that it's gone too far. The ...

The holidays were busy for mail carriers because we were busy sending packages with those familiar five-digit codes. Well, our Planet Money team got curious, where did ZIP codes come from? Here's ...