Mailing A Letter Out Of State. Address letter as you would in the receiving country with country name at the bottom. If you know people that are trying to show off by writing out the entire name of the state, tell them that they are actually making a fool out of themselves because they're incorrect.
Some writers and editors still prefer to use the older forms of state abbreviations (see traditional abbreviations in the table below), though this is rare. I recently sent a letter to the out of state owners in my county. • use postal abbreviations when writing the state.
A full, proper address for a letter to mexico will look like this:
United states postal service average mail times delaware. Serving papers out of state can present unique challenges, depending on the states involved. The department provided an initial list of abbreviations in june 1963, but many had three or four letters, which was still too long. However, it has a much higher weight limit than other mailing services.