[Sgt_Schultze]

That's an interesting explanation. I wonder if Snopes used the zip code for obie's house in 1961 or as it is now in 2012. According to the Postal Service important historical dates, the ZIP Code and sectional center plan was (inconveniently) implemented in 1963

[dinodino]

Wouldn’t have been ‘61, as O’s SSN would have been applied for later...