About the Museum
The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoaxipedia (the museum's online encyclopedia of hoaxes), and the Hoax Forum.

The museum was created in 1997 by Alex Boese. He's assisted by a staff of deputy curators and docents. Alex is the author of three books, most recently Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (which has nothing to do with hoaxes). Check out the list of the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time for a preview.



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#56: Portable Zip Codes
In 2004 National Public Radio's All Things Considered announced that the post office had begun a new 'portable zip codes' program. This program, inspired by an FCC ruling that allowed phone users to take their phone number with them when they moved, would allow people to also take their zip code with them when they moved, no matter where they moved to. It was hoped that with this new program zip codes would come to symbolize "a citizen's place in the demographic, rather than geographic, landscape." Assistant Postmaster General Lester Crandall was quoted as saying, "Every year millions of Americans are on the go: People who must relocate for work or other reasons. Those people may have been quite attached to their original homes or an adopted town or city of residence. For them this innovative measure will serve as an umbilical cord to the place they love best."

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red face

I remember hearing this on the radio; for over a year now, I'VE THOUGHT IT WAS REAL.
Posted by Andy  on  Tue Apr 05, 2005  at  10:53 AM
I can sympathize, Andy. I heard it on the radio and thought "that's ridiculous!" Fortunately for me, I did figure it out by the end of the broadcast. (whew)
Posted by John  on  Tue Apr 05, 2005  at  12:29 PM
The best part was left out. This was reported as being part of the new "Go Postal" campaign that the USPS was implementing, trying to get more people to use the mail.
Posted by CRuss  on  Wed Apr 06, 2005  at  07:01 AM
That's spectacular! LOL. And who says Public Radio has no humor?
Posted by Katharine  in  Chicago, IL  on  Fri Mar 30, 2007  at  10:21 AM
ha ha ha! very silly! smile
Posted by stringbassgirl  in  this galaxy, the world  on  Mon Apr 02, 2007  at  03:00 PM
there is a new company that will do just that get you an alternate "zip code" and that is all you will need and people will send you mail and they will scan it and send you an email.
Posted by Readthenews  in  arizoan  on  Tue Apr 01, 2008  at  12:04 PM
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