Help: Seacrest House, but Panama City Beach Zip?#@?

That's where the mail is delivered from or if you had to pick up something, it's in PCB.

You get the zip of the post office branch that serves you. Your delivery route originates at a location in the 32413 zip area.

I'm not sure how UPS and FedEx carve their space. If you have to have an SRB zip then you can rent a box at Mailboxes etc. in Seagrove or UPS store at WaterColor Crossing.

If somebody can convince the post office to give the eastern end of SoWal their own zip code - for example, 32461, which is the Rosemary Beach PO, would be a good one - I will be forever grateful. Or at least until I retire.

Seriously, they finally did it for Destin / Miramar Beach...32550 means you are in Walton County.

LOL! Don't get hung up on it. Before High Pointe was ever built, I got a brochure and totally blew it off becase of the PCB address. Could have had a 4th floor gulf front 3 bd unit for $350,000

LOL! Don't get hung up on it. Before High Pointe was ever built, I got a brochure and totally blew it off becase of the PCB address. Could have had a 4th floor gulf front 3 bd unit for $350,000

I love my brand new house in Seacrest Beach on 30A, but why do I have to have a PC Beach zip code? If I wanted a PC Beach address I would have moved there!!!

Also, why does the U.S mail recognize that my Seacrest address in zip 32413, but UPS and Fed Ex (for my at home business) won't permit it--they say it is PC Beach?

Help!!!!!!!!!

The mail system is so screwed up here! I've sent mail faster between continents than between Sandestin and Santa Rosa Beach or Seagrove and Rosemary Beach. Easiest solution is to get a mailbox at the Seagrove Mailboxes etc if the zip code is really important to you. I think it's $12 a month for a box.

You don't know how big of a deal the zip code problem is for that end of 30A. It is much bigger than a mailing issue. It also affects home sales and showings. If a property is listed in the MLS with its correct mailing address on that end of the beach, it has the PCB zip code. When people looking for property on the east end of 30A go to a site like Realtor.com and search by zipcode for Santa Rosa Beach (32459), those listings with the PCB zip code will not show up. One would have to search for PCB properties to locate those east end properties. One way to bypass this is to list the property using the real address (like UPS uses), however, the geo mapping software is not a lat/lon based program, so the mapping shows up all messed up on those same sites like Realtor.com. I've been working the MLS Committee to try and find a new and better way of solving this major problem, but thus far, we have only answers that are not readily implementable. The easy answer is using a lat/lon map, like Google Earth, but the vendor that ECAR uses for the MLS doesn't have that ability, YET. It is something that I am pushing for so that these properties on the east end can be easily searched without having to know the intricacies of searching.

S.J.,

It gets even more complicated than that. We just got a vehicle registration renewal notice from Bay County. We have never had this vehicle registered in Bay County, but whatever database the state uses thinks we're in Bay County because of our zip code. One year our mortgage company paid all of our property taxes to Bay County instead of Walton County. It is a big problem. I also had to ask our realtor to list a house we sold as "Seacrest Beach" instead of "Panama City Beach" as she was going to do orignially.

I've started using 'Seacrest Beach" on all my addresses so we can be distinguished from PCB. Luckily the mailman on this end, Fred, knows everybody so there aren't usually any problems. As long as you have the right zip code, its fine.

Hank, you're going to have problems with UPS and FedEx because their boundaries are different than the post office. Zip code 32413 extends to Deer Lake. The PCB Boundaries of FedEX and UPS go to Camp Creek Lake with the Destin/Ft. Walton boundaries extending to the west side of the lake. You are in no man's land. You will have to work it out with them until the route drivers get to know you. Watersound has a post office and its own zip code. Maybe you could rent a P.O. box there?

Well, the place we rent is in Inlet Beach and has a Seagrove phone exchange and a PC Beach zip code of 32413. Any phone calls to PC Beach are considered long distance, I would imagine Seagrove calls would not be but who knows.

wow. As an FYI- I see many variations of the addresses within a neighborhood in the MLS. For example,

555 Zippy Ln
Seacrest Beach, FL 32459

556 Zippy Ln
Seacrest Beach, FL 32413

557 Zippy Ln
Panama City Beach, FL 32413

558 Zippy Ln
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

559 Zippy Ln
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32413

If the zipcode is still the Panama City Beach zip (32413), in the searches on Realtor.com and other sites, the listings will come up only in the search for that PCB zipcode.

Well, the place we rent is in Inlet Beach and has a Seagrove phone exchange and a PC Beach zip code of 32413. Any phone calls to PC Beach are considered long distance, I would imagine Seagrove calls would not be but who knows.

Growing up on the State Line between two different Time Zones, living in one, and going to school in the other, it was a little confusing. Yes, I used both time zones, depending on which state I was in at any given time. To make that more confusing, some people living in the Eastern Zone, used Central Time, so anytime someone mentioned time, it was always followed with the correct Time Zone, for clarification.

Our telephone was on the other states system, and calling our closest neighbor, who was on a different phone system, was long distance.

The big difference here is that multi-million dollar home sales are being affected by this craziness of the PCB zip debacle.

wow. As an FYI- I see many variations of the addresses within a neighborhood in the MLS. For example,

555 Zippy Ln
Seacrest Beach, FL 32459

556 Zippy Ln
Seacrest Beach, FL 32413

557 Zippy Ln
Panama City Beach, FL 32413

558 Zippy Ln
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

559 Zippy Ln
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32413

If the zipcode is still the Panama City Beach zip (32413), in the searches on Realtor.com and other sites, the listings will come up only in the search for that PCB zipcode.

On http://www.emeraldcoasthomesonline.com, you can search by area (South Walton East) and it will bring up homes with both zip codes, but I'm sure you know that.

On http://www.emeraldcoasthomesonline.com, you can search by area (South Walton East) and it will bring up homes with both zip codes, but I'm sure you know that.

On Realtor.com, you can also search by city, which would pull it up by the city address, but if one searches by zip, it pulls up the zipcode listed. Yes, the public version of ECAR, you linked above, does have searches by area, but I don't think that most people are aware of the site, and tend to use the big search sites. Either way, there is no real answer to solve the problems of the system until they use a lat/lon mapping system like Google uses.

You can just do like I do and put 'PCB, FL'. For all anyone who actually gives a rip can tell, you live in Punta Caribe Bonita or some such. Or, you can put Seacrest Beach, FL 32413 and the mail will still come. Jeez, talk about redlining poor Panama City Beach!:roll:

I've got you a better one....our new house at Watersound has a physical address of # Street name, Watersound, FL 32413 and we also have a P. O. Box there with P.O. Box &*&*&*& Watersound, FL 32461. My house is not two blocks from the post office and we have two different zip codes. Go figure.

Our other house is in Seagrove and we have always used the address plus Seagrove Beach, FL 32459 but it's actually Santa Rosa Beach, Fl 32459. Always gets the mail there. They use the same Seagrove Beach, Fl at One Seagrove Place.

Watersound also has P.O. boxes for the public to use, go by and ask for Kitty she is our post mistress and a sweetheart. I did have at one time a P.O. box in Seaside.....never again....try getting your mail during season!

Postal boxes usually have a different zipcode than the surrounding ones.

Postal boxes usually have a different zipcode than the surrounding ones.

not in Alabama and mine at Seaside had the same zippy code.

:shock: Designer Zip Codes?? :roll:



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Growing up on the State Line between two different Time Zones, living in one, and going to school in the other, it was a little confusing. Yes, I used both time zones, depending on which state I was in at any given time. To make that more confusing, some people living in the Eastern Zone, used Central Time, so anytime someone mentioned time, it was always followed with the correct Time Zone, for clarification.

Our telephone was on the other states system, and calling our closest neighbor, who was on a different phone system, was long distance.

The big difference here is that multi-million dollar home sales are being affected by this craziness of the PCB zip debacle.

Yeah SJ, that is true.

The big difference here is that multi-million dollar home sales are being affected by this craziness of the PCB zip debacle.

So if the Florida Assn of Realtors can talk Sorry Charlie into getting the zip codes changed, Florida will find relief from its housing constipation.... Who knew?

Zip Code envy....how lame is that??


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So if the Florida Assn of Realtors can talk Sorry Charlie into getting the zip codes changed, Florida will find relief from its housing constipation.... Who knew?

Zip Code envy....how lame is that??


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not at all, but it is a glitch in the system, which has been frucked up for quite some time.

not at all, but it is a glitch in the system, which has been frucked up for quite some time.

You honestly mean to tell me that some prospective buyer of a multi-million dollar home said to you, "Jeez, you mean to tell me that this house has a Panama City Zip Code?? To hell with this house! Show me something with a more upscale zip code."

Sounds like a textbook case of recto-cranial inversion--was there an echo when he spoke?

The "glitch" isn't with the "system"....but you're right-on with the frucked-up part.


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You honestly mean to tell me that some prospective buyer of a multi-million dollar home said to you, "Jeez, you mean to tell me that this house has a Panama City Zip Code?? To hell with this house! Show me something with a more upscale zip code."

Sounds like a textbook case of recto-cranial inversion--was there an echo when he spoke?

The "glitch" isn't with the "system"....but you're right-on with the frucked-up part.


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Never said that. Go back and read my posts. I simply said that it is possible that many homes are not showing up under the search by zipcodes in this area, especially if they are listed with the correct mailing address zipcode. Usually, when someone buys a home on the east end of 30A, past Camp Creek, it is only after the purchase when they are upset that they have a PCB mailing address. One cannot brag about owning in SoWal when his or her friends see the PCB mailing address.

One cannot brag about owning in SoWal when his or her friends see the PCB mailing address.

Maybe that's God's way of showing them and their "impressionable friends" how incredibly shallow they all really are??

OH! The inhumanity of it all!


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Maybe that's God's way of showing them and their "impressionable friends" how incredibly shallow they all really are??

OH! The inhumanity of it all!


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SHELLY...it happens in cities and neighborhoods all over this great country of ours...why are you so surprised?