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Publication 28 - Postal Addressing Standards
July 2006
1 Introduction
11 Background
12 Overview
13 Address Information Systems Products and Services
2 Postal Addressing Standards
21 General
22 Last Line of the Address
23 Delivery Address Line
24 Rural Route Addresses
25 Highway Contract Route Addresses
26 General Delivery Addresses
27 United States Postal Service Addresses
28 Post Office Box Addresses
29 Puerto Rico Addresses
3 Business Addressing Standards
31 General
32 Scope of Standardization
33 Defining Business-to-Business Data Elements
34 Line Removal Guidelines
35 Address Data Element Compression Guidelines
Appendix A Address Formatting
A1 Readability
A2 Address Types
A3 International Addresses
Appendix B Two-Letter State and Possession Abbreviations
Appendix C Street Abbreviations
C1 Street Suffix Abbreviations
C2 Secondary Unit Designators
Appendix D Unusual Addressing Situations
D1 Hyphenated Address Ranges
D2 Grid Style Addresses
D3 Alphanumeric Combinations of Address Ranges
D4 Fractional Addresses
D5 Spanish and Other Foreign Words
Appendix E Address Standardization - Alphanumeric/Fractional Coding
E1 Format
Appendix F Address Standardization - County, State, Local Highways
Appendix G Business Word Abbreviations
Appendix H Standard Abbreviations for Spanish-Language Addresses