Actually, they aren’t really ZIP codes. You won’t find them in the Post Office’s list of ZIP codes, and they won’t work on the USPS website to check ZIP codes. Those are just codes used by someone else (like Google) that are intended to look like ZIP codes, and fit with the ZIP structure, but they aren’t real ZIP codes.
Nope, that’s an obvious fake. ZIP codes are all numeric in the USA. He seems to mention it as something to tell nosy sales clerks who ask for your ZIP code and other private info. I prefer telling them that “my ZIP code is 1. Just 1”.
No. What would be the point? ZIP codes are to improve delivery of mail – why would you have them for “non-delivery”? And why would you keep them “secret”?
There are some ZIP codes that are effectively incoming-only; the tiny town of Young America, MN has dozens of ZIP codes, because a huge number of the coupon/rebate offers in this country are mailed to a company there. But the people in the town use the regular ZIP code on letters they mail out.
You can go to any Post Office and look thru a huge book of all the ZIP codes in the country, or even buy the file of them from the Post Office. Hardly anything secret there.
I’d be surprised if any mail goes “directly” to the President. Does he spend time every morning opening envelopes? No doubt it all goes thru his staff.
And the number isn’t very secret: go to ZIP Code™ Lookup | USPS and enter 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE and you’ll get 20500-0001 for the President, 20500-0002 for the First Lady, 20500-0039 for the Birthday Card Greetings office, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are others that are not widely published like the 20500 one. That would just make sense as a way of sorting out the large amount of mail the White House gets. Some of it, like letters from Congress, perhaps a bill of impeachment, might need to be responded to quickly. So they might have a different ZIP code for that mail. But they aren’t secret – not to the postman, certainly.
Probably true. I don’t know of any other ‘00’ one. Internally, the Post Office uses the ‘00’ ones to refer to the regional or sector offices; thus 55400 refers to the Minneapolis office. But that’s internal; it’s not a valid ZIP code to put on a letter.