Publication 28 - Postal Addressing Standards > 2 Postal Addressing Standards
2 Postal Addressing Standards
21 General
211 Standardized Delivery Address Line and Last Line
212 Format
213 Secondary Address Unit Designators
213.1 Common Designators
213.2 Pound Sign (#)
213.3 Alternate Location
214 Attention Line
215 Dual Addresses
22 Last Line of the Address
221 City Names
222 Punctuation
223 Spelling of City Names
224 Format
225 Military Addresses
225.1 Overseas Locations
225.2 Domestic Locations
226 Preprinted Delivery Point Barcodes
23 Delivery Address Line
231 Components
232 Street Name
233 Directionals
233.1 Abbreviations
233.2 Single Directionals
233.3 Directional as Part of Street Name
234 Suffixes
234.1 Abbreviations
234.2 Two Suffixes
235 Numeric Street Names
236 Corner Addresses
237 Highways
238 Military Addresses
238.1 Overseas Locations
238.2 Domestic Locations
239 Department of State Addresses
24 Rural Route Addresses
241 Format
242 Leading Zero
243 Hyphens
244 Designations RFD and RD
245 Additional Designations
246 ZIP+4
25 Highway Contract Route Addresses
251 Format
252 Leading Zero
252.1 Hyphens
253 Star Route Designations
254 Additional Designations
255 ZIP+4
26 General Delivery Addresses
261 Format
262 ZIP Code or ZIP+4
27 United States Postal Service Addresses
271 Format
272 ZIP Code or ZIP+4
28 Post Office Box Addresses
281 Format
282 Leading Zero
283 Designations
284 PO Box Street Addressing
285 Private Mailbox Addresses
29 Puerto Rico Addresses
291 Format
292 Urbanization
293 Common Translations
294 Spanish Directionals
295 Delivery Address Line
295.1 General
295.2 Street Names
295.3 Numbered Streets
295.4 House Numbers
295.5 Urbanization
295.6 Post Office Box
295.7 Rural Route