[HiTech RedNeck]

In fact the initial 3 digits indicate the zip coded area that begins with those same digits. I don’t know what they do now that such areas can have originated more than a million SSNs since the beginning of Social Security in some cases. Adding more digits to the SSN will be an upheaval like unto the Y2K panic.

[Ed Condon]

HUH?

Social Security, and therefore the numbers, started in the 1930’s. The U.S.Post Office (Zone Improvement Plan),”ZIP” code started in 1965.

[itsahoot]

B$, what about SSN# that were generated before zip codes were even thought of. Zip codes came into use in 1963.

[BuckeyeTexan]

In fact the initial 3 digits indicate the zip coded area that begins with those same digits.

That's incorrect.

[dalereed]

“In fact the initial 3 digits indicate the zip coded area that begins with those same digits.”

NO way!

If that was true mine would start with 900 but it starts with the correct #550.

[cookcounty]

"In fact the initial 3 digits indicate the zip coded area that begins with those same digits."

Not in my case.....
Not in my wife's case....
Not in my kids' cases (who got their SS# in a different state from myself).