Who owns the zip codes in the states, the postal service or the federal government?

Rural areas are having a very difficult time with zip codes. It seems that there is a catch 22 with zip codes. My state rep told me that the federal government owns the zip codes, but the postal service which is no longer a part of the federal government, although it is regualted by the federal government, has the discresion of of assigning zip codes for mailing routes. This is a problem because in many cases a town has a zip code and a post office, but by the "discrestion" of the postal service those zip codes can be ignored and mail delivery can be assigned to another zip code. Case and point, in Wrightsville, AR the Zip code is 72183. This is an incorporated city. However the physical addresses are Little Rock 72206. Also in Woodson AR, the zip is 72180 but for home delivery the address stays the same, but the city and zip changes to Hensley, AR 72065. These are not automatically entered into a data base. Even those living in Hensley that have PO Boxes addresses won't validate, for expample for online ordering or services. But, these are 911 addresses. Even those living in Hensley their address basically is not recognized because they have not been "activated". This is like living in the twilight zone. We receive packages in these areas from courriers. But, in some data bases they will not validate.



This is causing real problems. Now our tax bills for Woodson lists us in Hensley and also on our utility bills our physical address is Hensley, but yet they are not recognized for services such as phone service and other services.



Does anyone have any information on how this can be resolved. We are in danger of losing our post offices and zip codes which means we lose our identity. We are tying to stop this but we don't know who to contact. We have contacted our state and US representatives but have not made any process.



Any direction would be greatly appreciated. We feel like this is an attempt to elimimate our communities and ultimately move us to another county. Most of the mail is delivered in another county that has nothing to do with the town.



Please send any information on what process to take to resolve this. These communities have been in existance for over 100 years and we don't wan to disappear.



Thank youWho owns the zip codes in the states, the postal service or the federal government?
The U.S. Postal Service is a semi-federal service that controls all zip codes. You need to contact them directly in order to solve whatever problems that you are having with delivery of mail.