The following is a list of abbreviations used by the
United States Postal Service. They are used to help the postal service process mail with
optical character recognition and other automated equipment. (This article concentrates on the abbreviations for states & other areas. There are also official USPS abbreviations for other parts of the address, such as street designators (street, avenue, road, etc.). Details of these are given in the External Links.)
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