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Publication 28 - Postal Addressing Standards - Contents
Publication 28 - Postal Addressing Standards
April 2010
PSN 7610-03-000-3688
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
A1 Readability
A2 Address Types
A3 International Addresses
Appendix B
Appendix C
C1 Street Suffix Abbreviations
C2 Secondary Unit Designators
Appendix D
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
E1 Format
Appendix F
Appendix G
Appendix H