List of U.S. state abbreviations

The following article includes a list of abbreviations for individual states in the United States, used by the United States Postal Service. The abbreviations are the simplified and accelerated postal delivery permit (including through automated optical address recognition ).

Postal marking in alphabetic listing. The postal abbreviation corresponds in all 50 states of the ISO 3166-2 encoding.

  • 3.1 Notes

Other encodings

Federal District

Islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean

Free associated states

U.S. military post

Older, now invalid codes

Addressing Example

JOHN DOE 359 OAK LANE Gibbsboro, NJ 08026

Conclusion of abbreviations

50 states:

  • 9 states in which the first letter is connected with other than the following letter:

Comments

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