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However, the Chicago Manual of Style now recommends use of the uppercase two-letter abbreviations, with the traditional forms as an option. [17] The postal abbreviation is the same as the ISO 3166-2 subdivision code for each of the fifty states. These codes do not overlap with the 13 Canadian subnational postal abbreviations.
1 October 1994 CY: NNNN The postal code system covers the whole island, but is not used on mail to Northern Cyprus. Northern Cyprus uses a 5-digit code commencing 99, introduced in 2013. For mail sent there from abroad, the line "Mersin 10" is written on the line above that containing the postal code, and the country name used is "Turkey".
Within the U.S. Territories, American Samoa (postal abbreviation AS) uses zip code 96799, and Guam (postal abbreviation GU) uses zip codes in the range 96910–96932. Each major island of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (postal abbreviation MP) has its own zip code in the 96950-96952 range. [1] [2]
USPS approved abbreviations [2] are used whenever possible to clarify and shorten the address. Example: The term avenue may commonly be abbreviated AV, AVEN, or AVN or fully spelled out as avenue. The standardized form is AVE. [3] Similarly, Square is commonly abbreviated SQRE, SQR, or SQU, while the standardized form is "SQ".
L002 3-Digit ZIP Code Prefix Matrix, Effective Date 2017-04-01, from USPS Facility Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST) L005 3-Digit ZIP Code Prefix Groups—SCF Sortation, Effective Date 2017-04-01, from USPS Facilities Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST) G030 Postal Zones; G042 Pricing and Classification Service Center
It appears they have another use. If you look at the public school K-12 database, the local education agency ID is a combination of several FIPS ID's, among them "state" except that there are DOZENS of schools in states 58, 59 and 61 whose physical location are either within one of the 50 states or on foreign US DoD bases.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is US, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the United States. The second part is two letters, which is the postal abbreviation of the state, district, or outlying area, except the United States Minor Outlying Islands which do not have a postal abbreviation.
Region 1 (RR 5.3) XR2 Region 2 (RR 5.4) XR3 Region 3 (RR 5.5) XRY Antarctic Region (RR AP 26/5.2) XSC ex SCG Serbia and Montenegro: XSD ex Republic of the Sudan before 14 July 2011 → SDN + SSD XSP Spratly Islands: XSU ex URS Soviet Union → RUS + … XUN United Nations: XWB West Bank: XWM World Meteorological Organization: XYU