Good Lord I'm next...

Very good, Kuma, thanks for sharing. Nostalgic.

Interesting - what is happening to the Zip code to get it classed as obsolete.

Quite a few of those examples are far from obsolete and may not become so for centuries yet.

Some of it reads like a list of sensible and practical things that many younger people don’t want to associate with because they want to look cool and trendy with expensive modern gadgetry [which often has a very short life span] and costs big bucks of borrowed money.

JarJar?  ...J should be for - JOB with a living wage.

Perhaps you have to draw a bar or Q code on your letters?

Ah thats why no more letters! (I know it's used for more than letters).

I suspect they were stuck for something to put under Z, and went for zip code as a way of saying that people don't write letters any more (as in their entries for C, I and R as well).

As a confirmed CD user, I found the entry for O most amusing. I got my first double-take from a pupil (aged 13-14) today when I put on a CD of Christmas music whilst they were doing a practical. When he said "CD???", I explained that I was retro, which he accepted without demur.

I love the fact that the UK's postcode system was so inventively useful that it's now used on satnavs and in a dozen other ways which the originators cannot possibly have foreseen. A system designed to make posties' lives easier end up being used by me to get my children to friends' houses for parties.

Mark