| City: | Parcel Return Service, District of Columbia |
| City Alias: | Prs |
| Names to Avoid: | Parcel Return Svc |
| County: | District Of Columbia County |
| Timezone: | Eastern (GMT -05:00) |
| Local Time: | 11:20:57 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Code: | -- |
| Classification: | Unique [Company/Government] |
| Coordinates: | 38.8600, -76.9900 |
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ZIP code 56972 joined the Parcel Return Services roster in February 2006, early in the program's history. PRS launched in October 2003 to give the Postal Service a competitive offering in the merchandise returns space. The program works through a simple process: retailers provide prepaid labels, customers drop packages at convenient postal locations, and USPS routes everything to consolidation points.
As one of the longer-serving PRS codes, 56972 has helped route millions of return packages over nearly two decades. This designation has no associated addresses or population. It functions exclusively as a routing identifier directing packages to facilities where consolidators collect them. Parcel Return Service and PRS are both valid as the city name.
ZIP Code 56972 is assigned to a single organization or institution. Detailed business demographics are not published for unique ZIP Codes.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 0Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 0Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 0Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 56972 is located in District Of Columbia County, District of Columbia, within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 47900) and District of Columbia's 98th Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 6,263,796 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 56972, and is subdivided into the Washington, DC-MD division. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WVSource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 47900Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | Washington, DC-MD (CBSA Div 47764)Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 6,263,796Source: Census |
| MSA: | Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV CMSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 98Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 61.40 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV PMSASource: Census |
| Intro Date: | 2006-02Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | --Source: Census |
| Place Name: | --Source: Census |
We could not locate which school district 56972 belongs to, but we will update this once new district data is released. There are no public schools nor private schools with a mailing address in this ZIP Code. Listing Nearby schools instead. It also has 6 colleges, universities or post secondary education institutions nearby which would be a short commute to.
Our sources include trusted federal and licensed data from the United States Postal Service, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Center for Education Statistics, along with proprietary datasets created by ZIP-Codes.com. Data last updated on January 1, 2026.