CARLSBAD: Post office to host ZIP code party
Event happens once in a century
By BARBARA HENRY - Staff Writer | ∞
Commemorative post cards will be sold for $1 at the "Date Meets ZIP" party at 9 a.m. Sept. 20 at Carlsbad's downtown post office, 2772 Roosevelt St.
CARLSBAD ---- People are calling it an event that can only happen once in a century. On Sept. 20, Carlsbad's 92008 ZIP code will match that day's date.
For most folks, that might be just a quirky coincidence hardly worth noticing, but for serious stamp collectors it's a cause for celebration, said Carlsbad letter carrier Conrad Beck.
Typically, post offices use a commemorative cancellation stamp on such occasions, but Carlsbad's post office is going well beyond that.
Beck is helping organize a free "Date Meets ZIP" party at Carlsbad's downtown post office complete with birthday cake and balloons. Carlsbad High School cheerleaders, the Army and Navy Academy's marching band and the city's mayor all plan to be on hand.
It's the "ideal small-town celebration," Beck said.
The post office, at 2772 Roosevelt St., will offer a special full-color, commemorative postcard in honor of the event.
The card, which costs $1, shows photographs of Carlsbad's more scenic sites, including the famed Flower Fields tourist attraction and the Pacific Ocean.
Expect them to be popular with collectors, said Lynne Sloppy, postmaster of the Encinitas, Cardiff and Leucadia post offices.
Cardiff's 92007 ZIP code matched the date last year and some 200 people showed up simply for the day's cancellation stamp, she said.
"Our (event) wasn't real big because Cardiff is a small town, and we didn't advertise it a lot," she said.
They also didn't have special postcards to mark the occasion, she added.
Carlsbad's 92008 ZIP code covers the northwestern part of the city, including the quaint downtown region where the post office is located.
This year's ZIP code party is the first of a series of these events that Carlsbad could host.
"We actually have it four years in a row," Beck said, noting that each of the city's four ZIP codes will match the date over the next four years.
Next year's turn for a party goes to 92009 ZIP code, which covers the southeastern part of town.
"Date Meets ZIP" Party
When: 9 a.m. Sept. 20
Where: Carlsbad's downtown post office, 2772 Roosevelt St.
Cost: $1 for commemorative post cards
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minute parking hour wait wrote on Sep 15, 2008 7:22 AM:"Carlsbad's 92008 ZIP code covers the northwestern part of the city, including the quaint downtown region where the post office is located.".........and not a parking place to be found...at the 'quaint' small town PO or anywhere else. And why 9 a.m. for postcards? Should we declare a holiday and take off from work?
jvc wrote on Sep 15, 2008 7:30 AM:I would hardly think that at a point in time when we have record foreclosures and high unemployement that we would consider
doing any partying! Please have some respect those of us that are going through hard times and during a time of war!If the Feds could bail out the rich, we should take of collections at all our churches for helping those with forclosure problems!
esteban wrote on Sep 15, 2008 7:42 AM:To "minute parking hour wait" Do you own or know how to use a calendar? Its on a Saturday! Who works on weekends? not me.
mark wrote on Sep 15, 2008 8:01 AM:They are having a party to celebrate that they dont live in Esconburrito
to jvc wrote on Sep 15, 2008 8:10 AM:"we should take of collections at all our churches for helping those with forclosure problems!" [sic] Are you kidding me?! Are you SERIOUSLY kidding me?!?! Get a clue... oh, and learn to edit your comments too...
jvc wrote on Sep 15, 2008 8:29 AM:What clue should I get?
jvc wrote on Sep 15, 2008 8:32 AM:What's Esconburrito?
Karl wrote on Sep 15, 2008 9:59 AM:Hey Mark @ 8:01 AM
I live in Escondido and I represent your remark!!!!
Karl wrote on Sep 15, 2008 10:01 AM:In fact Mark, I think I'll head on down to one of our local fine food establishments for a burrito right now, yum!!!!!!
jvc wrote on Sep 15, 2008 3:09 PM:Represent....meaning to agree?
proud of the wrote on Sep 15, 2008 4:16 PM:To all of those that don't realize that the folks that live in the 92008 zip code are proud people and proud of the area that we live in. To others that don't live in the 008... Well you don't have to celebrate this because it’s not your party, it’s ours!!! And if any one does want to come and support a local thing in Carlsbad there is plenty of parking around the corner at the coaster station and we welcome you. We have great Mexican food as well as many other kinds, just like other places...
As far as the people getting foreclosed on… that’s a totally different story… I have empathy for some… bad things do happen. But none for the majority of others that refinanced to get a nice new truck, a nice new bathroom, etc… and totally over extended themselves and expect others to bail them out is pathetic! It is time that we all took care of our own actions and suffer through some of the bad consequences and decisions that they themselves have made.
Happy in wrote on Sep 15, 2008 9:32 PM:I agree! Why should my taxpayer dollars go to bail out people who extended themselves, while I bought a house I could afford with a fixed, 15 year mortgage?
the truth wrote on Sep 16, 2008 8:45 AM:to "jvc": congratulations! you win the prize for being the worst blogger in the world. not only are your remarks off point; they are boring.
jvc wrote on Sep 16, 2008 11:48 AM:Could I bore you one more time:
We have no shame!Let us party into ruin!
And, since you have taken a consensus of opinion and found me to be the most boring blogger ever,
do a get an award? I am so proud of having earned this distinction!
jvc wrote on Sep 16, 2008 11:51 AM:You want to know boring? Read the daily
blogs from the daily letters to the editor!
jvc wrote on Sep 16, 2008 12:29 PM:Let's party!
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