Re: What is Pick anyway?

From: frosty <frostyj_at_bogus.tld>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:40:20 -0800
Message-ID: <EPCdnTDHksQRmVHeRVn-vw_at_adelphia.com>


B Faux wrote:
> [snip]

>> I'll define the POSTAL file with POSTALID as field 0, the key, CITY >> as field 1 and STATE as field 2.
[snip]
Don, this only works when each POSTAL code serves only one CITY.

That's certainly not the case here in the States (assuming the POSTALID is a ZIP code; are you living somewhere else, or just making a simplifying assumption?

I thought you might be talking about ZIP+4, which doesn't (to my knowledge) have this problem, but then you write:
> Then using the postal code, it reads
> the POSTAL file using 45678 as the key to get the city and state...

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frosty 
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