Full PostingOn Dr C's Obama Conspiracy blog a poster named Gorefan proposes the following explanation:
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We know that his CT SSN was due to a clerical error in the Baltimore SS headquarters. In 1975, SSN were issued based on the zip code of the return address. The President’s house in Hawaii was zip code 96814 and the zip code for Danbury, CT. is 06814.
But what address matches?
1617 S BERETANIA ST but its zip code in 96826 according to Google Maps.
But wait a minute.... Stanley Ann used 96814 for the zip code for the same address in her passport application... Yet Obama's Columbia Directory address shows 96826. What's going on...
And thus I searched Google Books
in
1976 the address 1575 South Beretania Street Honolulu, had zip code
96814Source: Sources of capital for community economic development By Leonard E. Smollen, John Hayes, Transaction Publishers, 1976
in
2010 the zip code has become
96826, and in fact Obama's 1980 Selective Services document shows the change to 96826.
and is just a stone's throw away from Obama's address. In other words, there was a rearrangement in zip codes and the 96814 was likely the zip code when Obama applied for his SSN. Thus the story that perhaps the 96814 was misread as 06814 and sent to Connecticut is quite reasonable an explanation as to why President Obama holds a CT SSN.