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  2. Canadian postal abbreviations for provinces and territories

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    ISO 3166-2:CA identifiers' second elements are all the same as these; ISO adopted the existing Canada Post abbreviations. [1] These abbreviations are not the source of letters in Canadian postal codes, which are assigned by Canada Post on a different basis than these abbreviations. While postal codes are also used for sorting, they allow ...

  3. List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    USCG. 2-letter codes used by the United States Coast Guard (bold red text shows differences between ANSI and USCG) Abbreviations: GPO. Older variable-length official US Government Printing Office abbreviations. AP. Abbreviations from the AP Stylebook [ 1 ](bold red text shows differences between GPO and AP) Name and status of region. ISO.

  4. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.

  5. List of North American Numbering Plan area codes - Wikipedia

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    this was the first part of North America to have its code changed three times: from 213 to 714 1951: to 619 in 1982, and to 760 in 1997. was to have originally split off the portion of 760 serving San Diego County to a new 442 area code in late 2008/early 2009; that plan was cancelled. 2009: overlaid by 442. 761.

  6. Canada Post - Wikipedia

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    Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is Canada Post Corporation in English and Société canadienne des postes in French. During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were "Mail" (English) and "Poste" (French), rendered as "Poste Mail" in Québec ...

  7. Postal codes in Canada - Wikipedia

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    A Canadian postal code ( French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British, Irish and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters.

  8. List of post-nominal letters (Canada) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of post-nominal letters used in Canada. The order in which they follow an individual's name is: Distinctions conferred directly by the Crown. University degrees. Memberships of societies and other distinctions. Normally no more than two are given, representing the highest award of each type. [1]

  9. A cruise liner-size asteroid will come closer to Earth than ...

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    A space rock the size of a cruise liner will closely pass Earth in April 2029. While the asteroid Apophis won’t hit Earth, two spacecraft may tag along.