{"id":6664,"date":"2017-10-30T18:33:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T18:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippodirect.com\/blog\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2020-07-29T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:48:08","slug":"dont-lose-your-zip-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hippodirect.com\/blog\/dont-lose-your-zip-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Lose Any Zip Codes From Your Mailing List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you use Excel to create a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hippodirect.com\/custom-built-lists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">mailin<\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">g list<\/span><\/span><\/a>,<\/span> make sure you define the zip code field correctly, rather than having Excel automatically define field as a &#8220;number&#8221; field. If not, the leading zeros drop off records.<\/p>\n<h2>Zip Codes &amp; Excel<\/h2>\n<p>If the field isn&#8217;t correctly defined, zip code 00988 will become 988 and zip code 02222 becomes 2222. And none of your mail pieces whose zip codes begin with a 0 will be properly delivered.<\/p>\n<p>To fix the problem:<br \/>\nIn your Excel spreadsheet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">a. highlight the entire zip code column, including column description<br \/>\nb. click Format from commands at top of screen<br \/>\nc. click Cells<br \/>\nd. click Special<br \/>\ne. click Zip Code<br \/>\nf. click OK<\/p>\n<p>Now you&#8217;ll have all of your zip codes and maximize the response from your mailing list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you use Excel to create a mailing list make, sure you define the zip code field correctly so the leading zeros don&#8217;t drop off records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-database-tips","category-email-mailing-lists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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