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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. [12]
A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from the map. The United States of America is a federal republic [ 1] consisting of 50 states ...
An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers and organization name.
An asterisk (*) indicates that the listed place name is the "default" place name for all addresses in the prefix, that is, that addresses for all ZIP codes beginning with that three-digit prefix will have that place name in the city portion of the address (example: 23219, 23224, and 23294 will all have "Richmond, Virginia" addresses, even if ...
Mail order. Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. The buyer places an order for the desired products with the merchant through some remote methods such as: Then, the products are delivered to the customer. The products are usually delivered directly to an address supplied by the customer, such as a home address, but ...
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
Phoenix. 33°26′53.15″N 112°5′49.54″W. / 33.4480972°N 112.0970944°W / 33.4480972; -112.0970944 ( Arizona State Capitol) 1700 W Washington Street. 1899–1900 (State Capitol) 1960 (House of Representatives and Senate buildings) 1974 (Executive Tower) 92 [ 5] NRHP The State Capitol Building no longer hosts government ...
UPU recommends that the country name always be included as the last line of the address. In the list above, the following principles have been applied: Integral country codes have been included in the code format, in bold type and without brackets. These are also used on internal mail in the respective countries.