Mr. ZIP

(From the Blind Observer)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mr. ZIP died at Washington Memorial Hospital Sept.23. He no longer had the "zip" he had displayed in earlier years, and had been horribly mangled when, on a public relations visit to U.S. Postal Service headquarters, he became entangled in the Post Office’s automated mail-handling equipment.

Mr. ZIP had carried out his duties through rain and snow and gloom of night since the Kennedy administration, but had made few public appearances since 1986, when he was forced into retirement by a Postal Service hierarchy that considered him an “anachronism.”