Why oh why did the USPS decree a two-letter abbreviation for states? With three letters you can not only have an unambiguous designation, but one that can be recognized as the state designated without ...

Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first two letters of each word are the same state postal abbreviation. (Ex. Colorado -- everyday ailment there's no cure for -- COmmon ...

Recently, I published a letter from Joshua in Omaha ("Seacoast Sunday," November 14, 2010). That column discussed the old-style state abbreviations and the current two-digit U.S. Postal Service (USPS) ...

Many of us learned Associated Press style in college. For me, that was 41 years Among of the first things we learned were AP state abbreviations, which are different from postal abbreviations. For ...