In the US if you get records through a FOIA they are public records of the US Govt.<br><br>USPS Procedures on FOIA<br><a href="http://about.usps.com/handbooks/as353/as353c4_toc.htm" target="_blank">http://about.usps.com/handbooks/as353/as353c4_toc.htm</a><br>
<br>For the FOIA regulations that apply to the USPS see <br>
<a href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2006/julqtr/39cfr265.1.htm" target="_blank">http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2006/julqtr/39cfr265.1.htm</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Nathan Edgars II <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neroute2@gmail.com" target="_blank">neroute2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 9/2/2011 3:30 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:<br>
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On 09/01/2011 12:01 AM, Stephen Hope wrote:<br>
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On 1 September 2011 11:41, Nathan Edgars II<<a href="mailto:neroute2@gmail.com" target="_blank">neroute2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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In the US, the problem is that address place names depend on which post<br>
office serves the area, and there is no freely available accurate data<br>
showing this. Many suburban areas outside Orlando city limits have<br>
Orlando<br>
in the address, and there are some cases where a place in city A uses an<br>
address that is not city A.<br>
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That's interesting, and a bit weird to me. Here, post offices open,<br>
close, move around, merge and split - and it makes no difference to my<br>
address.<br>
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I've lived to places in the USA where I could not be called to Jury<br>
duty... because the Court sent notices based a naive address match, but<br>
the property was actually in a different jurisdiction.<br>
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Note that the USPS recently lost a freedom of information act fight, and<br>
was forced to share post box data. Perhaps other data can be FOI'ed out<br>
of them.<br>
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As far as I know, FOIA has nothing to do with copyright, and since the USPS is not technically part of the government, its data is copyrighted by default.<br>
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