UChicago receives package for Indiana Jones

Re:UChicago receives package for Indiana Jones by Jun8 on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:09PM (#4917480)

Two small details that makes this truly fantastic: That it was addressed to the actual building (Rosenwald Hall) that Indiana would have worked (a lesser fanboy would have addressed it to the Oriental Museum) and that it has no ZIP code, since those would not be in use at that time (adopted starting from 1963).

Amazing.

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Re:UChicago receives package for Indiana Jones by pondababa on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:49PM (#4917680)

Rosenwald is also the admissions building. It may very well be a fanboy applicant to the University.

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Re:UChicago receives package for Indiana Jones by timdiggerm on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:17PM (#4917520)

On the other hand, it looks like they used a modern mailing envelope instead of brown paper as the string would indicate was appropriate.

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Re:UChicago receives package for Indiana Jones by moioci on Thursday December 13, 2012 @03:19PM (#4917839)

Wouldn't the pre-ZIP code address look something like Chicago 37, Ill?

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Re:UChicago receives package for Indiana Jones by andrewem on Thursday December 13, 2012 @08:36PM (#4919133)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code claims without citation that zones were introduced in 1943. http://web.archive.org/web/20041030125608/https://www.usps.c... confirms May 1943. It's not clear when the envelope was supposed to be from, so it may be right that it doesn't have a zone like "37" after Chicago.

Awesomely, using a ZIP code on a supposedly pre-ZIP letter was one of the clues that exposed a document forger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_document_hoax

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