Were State Abbreviations 3 Letters?
To Make Room for the Zip Code, State Names Needed to Be Abbreviated. the Department Provided an Initial List of Abbreviations in June 1963, but Many Had Three...
To make room for the ZIP Code, state names needed to be abbreviated. The Department provided an initial list of abbreviations in June 1963, but many had three or four letters, which was still too long. In October 1963, the Department settled on the current two-letter abbreviations.
How did states get their abbreviations?
History. In 1831 and 1874, the United States Postal Service published a preferred list of state abbreviations. ... In 1963, the post office put into effect the five-digit ZIP Code which would be written after the state abbreviation. At this time, many state abbreviations were made up of four letters.
Do all states have 2 letter abbreviations?
State Abbreviations for the 50 US States
Each state has its own unique shortened name codes used in written documents and mailing addresses. The state abbreviations are always in the same format: two letter abbreviations where both letters are uppercase and no periods or spaces between each letter.
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