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1. mywitt+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-02-07 19:44:53
> For some smaller population zip codes you can practically just put the name and zip code down and achieve delivery.

A 5+4 formatted ZIP code maps to just a handful of addresses. In cities with larger populations, the +4 could map to a single building, and in more sparely populated place, it might include houses on a handful of roads.

For smaller datasets, ZIP+4 might as well be a unique household identifier. I just checked a 10 million address database and 60% of entries had a unique ZIP+4, so one other bit of PII would be enough to be a 99.99% unique identifier per person.

With a geo-coded ZIP+4 database, you could locate people with a precision that's proportional to the population density of their region.

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2. mattfo+57[view] [source] 2025-02-07 20:28:50
>>mywitt+(OP)
Yeah but we have that already in the census hierarchy. Plus you have to pay to access Zip+4 geospatial data and it changes sometime as frequently as quarterly
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