On: We’ll Miss You, MetroCard Machine

[dhosek]

Zip codes in the US sometimes have a vanity element as well. Most famously would be 90210, the Beverly Hills zip code, but a bit to the West, the part of Santa Monica with the zip code 90402 is recognized as the fanciest part of the city (I actually lived in 90402 for a few years but in a surprisingly inexpensive apartment building and not one of the multi-million dollar mansions that I regularly passed by on my commute to work).

[bombcar → dhosek]

Even less well known is that if you bribe the post office hard enough you can get “moved” into the more prestigious nearby zip code.

It’s been a trick to increase rental property values for awhile.

[justsomehnguy → dhosek]

> Most famously would be 90210, the Beverly Hills zip code

Which also helps a lot when some stupid form insist what I need to enter an American ZIP code... though I typing in an address in a completely another part of the world.