title: can't open shape file with GeoPandas
body: <p>I don't seem to be able to open the zip3.zip shape file I download from (<a href="http://www.vdstech.com/usa-data.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://www.vdstech.com/usa-data.aspx</a>)</p>
  
  <p>Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import geopandas as gpd
  data = gpd.read_file("data/zip3.shp")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this gives me the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>CPLE_AppDefinedError: b'Recode from CP437 to UTF-8 failed with the error: "Invalid argument".'
  </code></pre>