Editing World Trade Center site (section)

==Exclusive ZIP code==
[[Image:Church st post office crop.jpg|thumb|US Post Office – Church Street Station]]
The World Trade Center site used the [[ZIP code]] 10048 before the September 11 attacks, and there were eight [[letter carrier]]s assigned to the buildings to deliver mail to the buildings' tenants.<ref>{{cite news |title='Not Deliverable';Mail still says 'One World Trade Center' |publisher=Newsday (New York) |date=February 4, 2003 |author=Olshan, Jeremy}}</ref> All of the Postal Service employees survived the attacks.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lt.15.html |title=Post Office Holding Mail For World Trade Center |publisher=CNN |date=October 2, 2001 |access-date=March 19, 2007}} Note: transcript says "seven letter carriers".</ref> In the months following the September 11, 2001 attacks, over 80,000 pieces of mail continued to arrive each day addressed to the World Trade Center, including some items loosely addressed to such recipients as "The Search Dogs" or "The Rescuers".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/resources/6g8_WTC.html |title=Reestablishing Neighborhood Service |author=Pope, Nancy A. |publisher=National Postal Museum |access-date=March 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212083226/https://postalmuseum.si.edu/resources/6g8_WTC.html |archive-date=February 12, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> By 2003, 3,600 items of mail per day were still being sent to 10048.<ref name="haberman">{{cite news |title=Twilight Zone For ZIP Code At Ground Zero |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 14, 2003 |author=Haberman, Clyde}}</ref>  These items were processed at the [[James Farley Post Office|James A. Farley General Post Office]], the main facility for New York City, located across from [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Penn Station]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]].<ref>{{cite news |title=WTC mail still goes through: The towers are gone, but the U.S. Postal Service has not abandoned its clients. Or the mail carriers who once served them. |author=Lagnado, Lucette |newspaper=The Ottawa Citizen |date=October 18, 2001}}</ref>  Mail there was held for pick-up by [[bicycle messenger|messenger]], forwarded to the intended recipient, returned to its sender, or destroyed.<ref name="odell">{{cite news |title=...And the Mail Just Keeps Coming |publisher=Direct |date=January 1, 2007 |author=Odell, Patricia}}</ref>

Following the attacks, the [[United States Postal Service]] provided free mail-forwarding service to the WTC's former occupants for three years, rather than the usual one-year period.<ref name="odell"/>  By the end of 2006, the number of items sent to 10048 had decreased to around 300 items daily,<ref name="odell"/> mostly sent from businesses and organizations that had not yet updated their [[bulk mail]]ing lists.<ref name="barr">{{cite news |title=Mail Still Being Sent to Trade Center |publisher=Associated Press |date=December 4, 2006 |author=Barr, Meghan}}</ref>

The [[90 Church Street]] Station Post Office building is located adjacent to the new World Trade Center and the PATH station, and serves the ZIP code of 10007, which is assigned to the surrounding Tribeca neighborhood. The new World Trade Center does not use the ZIP code 10048; rather, it has been integrated within the existing 10007 ZIP code.<ref>{{cite web |first1=Liam La |last1=La Guerre |last2=Persichetti |first2=Richard |title=One World Trade Center Won't Get an Exclusive Zip Code: USPS Officials |website=Commercial Observer |date=September 18, 2012 |url=https://commercialobserver.com/2012/09/the-vanity-zip/ | access-date=March 2, 2018}}</ref> The 10048 ZIP code was used again after the September 11, 2001 attacks for a pictorial [[Cancellation (mail)|cancellation]] commemorating the anniversary of the attacks.<ref>"'We will never forget': Special cancellation commemorates Sept. 11." United States Postal Service.</ref>