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The U.S. Postal Service had planned to make the change on July 1, but ditched the effort yesterday.
Postal officials decided that the difficulties in implementing such a large-scale change, including equipment recalibration and retraining, outweighed the benefits of reserving the 967 codes for the growing Neighbor Island population, said Duke Gonzales, spokesman for the Honolulu District of the U.S. Post Office.
The decision was an internal one and was not based on any negative feedback from government officials, he said.
Sure it was.
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