State abbreviations were created to make addresses shorter. That's it. The history behind state abbreviations isn't as complex as the stories behind state names or capitals, but the abbreviations ...
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Where the states’ postal abbreviations came from
(WYTV) – You’re mailing a letter to another state and you’re trying to abbreviate that state’s name. Do you know them all? Ohio was once simply O. In 1831, the Post Office first gave the country its ...
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