CHARLOTTE — Since the beginning of 2020 — a period largely shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic — ZIP codes in and around uptown Charlotte experienced a net decrease in the number of addresses that received business mail deliveries. That’s according to data from the U.S. Postal Service, which tracks the number of change-of-address requests from people and businesses who have recently moved.
Between the start of 2020 through October 2022, uptown’s primary ZIP code — 28202 — saw a net loss of 762 businesses, the most of any ZIP in Charlotte. That net decrease is calculated by subtracting the number of businesses that filed a change-of-address out of the 28202 ZIP code from the number that moved into the ZIP.
The net decrease stems from the 603 businesses that started having mail delivered to 28202 during that period and the 1,365 businesses there that had mail delivered to a new ZIP. The May 2020 net loss of 383 businesses from 28202 was the largest monthly net loss of any ZIP code in Charlotte between January 2020 and October 2022.
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