The 46637 trap: a South Bend ZIP is not a town address

The trap carriers returned by the sweeps of November 2026, each as described in the pass note

The town's name appears on business pages constantly — and every appearance dissolves on inspection. The town is delivered under South Bend ZIP 46637 and has no ZIP of its own, so name-and-ZIP searches return the surrounding city's commerce wearing the town's label. The classes print so they stop travelling: service-area listings — firms in South Bend whose text names Indian Village among the areas they serve, a service area being a market, not a seat; template pages — national licence-guidance, therapy and treatment directories that generate an "Indian Village" page from the place name and list no business in the town, or list centres at South Bend addresses only; street-name collisions — a Maplehurst Avenue in Mishawaka and a Maplehurst bakery firm in Brownsburg, neither of them the town's Maplehurst Street; and a name collision — the Palmer funeral homes of South Bend, whose Palmer is a family's name, not the town's Palmer Street. Even the town's own government illustrates the rule: the Town of Indian Village is a municipal corporation whose only address in the record is Post Office Box 6472, South Bend — a South Bend box, outside the bounds (the institutions fragment prints the mail course whole). The discipline the whole build observes is stated here once for the economy pass: a business belongs to this town only when its own record puts it inside the line, and no carrier reached does.