The [United States Postal Service]
? uses two-letter abbreviations for each
state and territory of the US, as specified below.
Other abbreviations used by the US postal service:
The USPS recommends address be written in block capital letters, probably for better processing by their OCR machinery. They prefer some standard abbreviations for common terms in street addresses.
- LN = lane
- ST = street
- BLVD = boulevard
- RD = road
- CIR = circle
- CT = court
- STE = suite
- NO = number
- N = north
- W = west
- S = south
- E = east
- CTR = center
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