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The United States Postal Service (USPS) has established a set of uppercase abbreviations to help process mail with optical character recognition and other automated equipment. [15] There are also official USPS abbreviations for other parts of the address, such as street designators (street, avenue, road, etc.).
Steps (Stps) Route consisting mainly of steps. Street (St) Public roadway in a town, city or urban area, especially a paved thoroughfare with footpaths and buildings along one or both sides. Subway (Sbwy) Underground passage or tunnel that pedestrians use for crossing under a road, railway, river etc.
The following are systems of state highways maintained and numbered by each U.S. state, territory or district. The naming conventions listed below may be supplemented by guidelines of individual state highway task forces under the U.S. Roads WikiProject (please see WP:USRD/SUB for a list).
Locatable Address Conversion System (LACS) is a service offered by the United States Postal Service to update mailing addresses when a street is renamed or the address is updated for 911. In the case of 911, the address is changed from a rural route format to an urban/city route format.
The FIPS state alpha code for each U.S. states and the District of Columbia are identical to the postal abbreviations by the United States Postal Service. From September 3, 1987, the same was true of the alpha code for each of the outlying areas, with the exception of U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM) as the USPS routes mail for these islands ...
The carrier route information specifies which route at that Post Office handles the mail. The route consists of a type or prefix followed by a three-digit number. Route prefixes and types are: [1] "B" for "post office box section" "C" for "carrier route" "G" for "general delivery unit" "H" for "highway contract route" "R" for "rural route"
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The reason for this is that the names of individual routes are proper nouns (names of individual things are proper nouns), but the generic term is not (X state route is a specific type of state route but not a specific state route in X, it is a generic term used for any X state route) An easier way to understand this is since we don't ...