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Tami87
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Addressing Invitations - State Abbreviations?
So I am getting ready to address and mail all of my invitations in the next few weeks. I am planning to hand address invitations in cursive and I was wondering what to do about the state abbreviations. I know that you really are supposed to spell out all abbreviations on formal invitations, but I have heard some people on the knot say they had issues with the postal service and their invitations getting pulled and hand sorted if they did not use the state abbreviation codes. Not sure what is best to do. I think it looks a little silly with the state abbreviation in print when the rest is in cursive, but I don't want any issues with the post office. What did everyone else do? If you spelled out state names did you have any issues?
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Re: Addressing Invitations - State Abbreviations?
[QUOTE]...You can't abbreviate the states in cursive?
Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]
Yea I thought about doing this too, but then wondered if there would be a similar problem for the scanner. Not really sure how the post office sorts mail or how good it is.
[QUOTE]Spell out all state names
Posted by ootmother2[/QUOTE]
Really? I totally didn't, but I guess that wouldn't be the worst thing I screwed up when addressing mine.
I think you should use the abbreviations. Like AATB said, you can still write the letters in cursive, or you know, not, and still be fine and have it look formal enough.
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That being said, if I remember correctly, I did not spell out the states. The city names of the bulk of my guests were so long, they took up the whole darned line.
[QUOTE]I always thought the post office sorted by zip code, primarily. I don't know why it would matter how you write the state name out as long as the zip code is correct and readable. FWIW, I often write out complete state names in formal correspondence (and whenever I send stuff to my friends who live in Maryland, because I have a <strong>weird mental block that prevents me from remembering Maryland's abbreviation</strong>), and all my mail's always gotten delivered just fine.
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OP, for our wedding invites we wrote out the state name and had no problems with our invites not getting to their destinations. Honestly, I don't think it really matters. As long as the zipcode is correct and readable your invite should get to the address without any problems. Please don't overthink this...once the person receiving the invite reads their name they will look no further and remember, it is just an envelope that is going to thrown in the trash.
[QUOTE]I spelled out all of my state names on my invitations. <strong>Many of them were sent to Colorado, which is a fairly long state name</strong>, and they were all delivered.
Posted by specialk84[/QUOTE]
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As long as the zip codes are correct you should not have any problems. When we took our invites to the post office, they did not even look at the state, just the zip.