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Why do some ZIP codes appear to have only 3 or 4 digits?

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Why do some ZIP codes appear to have only 3 or 4 digits?

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Because many ZIP codes start with 0 or 00 , when you important them into a program like Excel as numbers rather than text, the leading zeroes are removed. To see all five digits (including the leading zeroes) in Excel, you need to format that row or column as a five digit input field (00000).

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