Talk:Sectional center facility (SCF)

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What are "regional post offices"? I worked for the post office for ten years and there are no such things. Looking at some of the "List of ZIPCode" articles, it appears they are guesses for 3-digit numbers where the SCF is located elsewhere.Squad51 18:47, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Looking at this list, it appears that someone has mixed up ADCs (Area distribution centers) with SCFs (at least here). Will make appropriate corrections.Squad51 00:11, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Age of sources

How is a directory from 1996 still a reliable source? The article has links to USPS lists dated a full decade later. Unless we add a section on history, we should follow the latter. Doctor Whom 15:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Definitely Incorrect

This lists "Santa Barbara" 930-931. There isn't an SCF in SB but there is one in Goleta. I can see how this is referred to as Santa Barbara as that's what the Postmark says - however, in the industry we say Goleta not SB.

The Oxnard SCF is not even listed which handles 930, nor is Santa Clarita, which services almost all of the San Fernando Valley. Glaring.

Nobody's mixed up SCF's with DDU's or BMC's - the 1st 3 digits of a zip always correspond with an SCF. It appears to be just really really old data.

There is updated data in the back of the current USPS handbook.

If the information is out of date, be bold and update it. As for what a facility is called, both the requirement for verifiability and the prohibition on original research would seem to constrain us to follow what the USPS calls a facility, not what you call it "in the industry." 38.100.35.16 (talk) 23:56, 7 January 2008 (UTC)