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Two letter postal codes for each of the nation's 18 administrative regions (e.g. AW for Awdal, BN for Banaadir, BR for Bari and SL for Sool). [26] South Africa: 8 October 1973 ZA: NNNN Postal codes are allocated to individual Post Office branches, some have two codes to differentiate between P.O. Boxes and street delivery addresses.
As in the rest of the United States, the fourth and fifth digits designate a post office or town; or in densely populated areas, an area or borough of a city. Originally, the ZIP codes were arranged in consecutive alphabetical order, with the 006xx range covering the offices from A to L, and the 007xx range covering the offices from M to Z. [2]
Prior to 1987, when the U.S. Secretary of Commerce approved the two-letter codes for use in government documents, [13] the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) suggested its own set of abbreviations, with some states left unabbreviated. Today, the GPO supports United States Postal Service standard. [14]
The FIPS state alpha code for each U.S. states and the District of Columbia are identical to the postal abbreviations by the United States Postal Service. From September 3, 1987, the same was true of the alpha code for each of the outlying areas, with the exception of U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM) as the USPS routes mail for these islands ...
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ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census and 5 year American Community Survey [1] datasets. They were updated again for the 2020 census.
Several United States post offices are individually notable and have operated under the authority of the United States Post Office Department (1792–1971) or the United States Postal Service (since 1971). Notable U.S. post offices include individual buildings, whether still in service or not, which have architectural or community-related ...