Hunter S. Thompson, in a letter to the Postmaster General, dated 11/19/1963:

I would appreciate knowing if you mean to continue the stupid, vicious ‘Zip code’ system, instituted by your predecessor. If so, I would also appreciate an explanation of the same. Is it, in fact, any more or less than governmental harrassment dreamed up by an anti-social pervert? …

I voted for Kennedy in the last election, but the first time one of my letters comes back to me for lack of a ‘Zip code,’ he can count on one less vote in 1964.

I read this one as an excerpt in Thus Spake The Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998, but these and more letters are published in The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967.

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