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The traditional abbreviations for U.S. states and territories, widely used in mailing addresses prior to the introduction of two-letter U.S. postal abbreviations, are still commonly used for other purposes (such as legal citation), and are still recognized (though discouraged) by the Postal Service.
The article now states "Except for CT, the second letter of the postal abbreviation is found in the GPO abbreviation for the state." According to the GPO web site, the GPO abbreviation for Connecticut is CT, same as the USPS abbreviation. In fact, all GPO state abbreviations are the same as the USPS ones. So what does this sentence mean?
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 ...
Talk; Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Usage. 2 Optional substitution. 3 List of state names with abbreviations. 4 See also. Toggle the table of contents ...
To use an example from another talk section -- Kent. is an abbreviation for Kentucky and Kent is the name of the county or city of Kent. If the abbreviation is used properly with a period it would not be confusing and obvious that Kent. means Kentucky. The article should be split and have one for state codes and one for abbreviations.
Google Trends says state abbreviations are the most-searched abbreviations. Mississippi's is in the Top 3. What are the other two states?
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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.