Jim Hogan
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I will tell you, in public office... I would say it would average out to three or four.
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Sure, because, you know, at my office, it's constantly dealing with it. Oh, that's the zip codes.
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Only one of which is in Scotland. Having zip codes in that profusion for such a small number of people creates enormous chaos.
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Well, the small problems are like ordering online. You just never know where things are going to go. I would say that almost everybody who lives in town has had a go-round or two about this, where a letter doesn't get there or a check doesn't get there or insulin doesn't get there.
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I mean, I was on a first-name basis with the vice president of Spectrum because it was the only way. to get high-speed internet was to convince them that your address existed.
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You can't get any kind of reliable statistics. And what I mean by that is how many are unemployed, how many electric cars are in town. There's virtually no data that I can trust.
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It was one of the first things I did. It's like, how can there be this level of dysfunction? based on zip codes. It just seems like the disconnect was so great that it would have to be fixable. Well, I was so wrong.