postal abbreviation

C571
concept

A postal abbreviation is a standardized short form of a geographic or administrative name used by postal services to streamline addressing and mail processing.

All labels observed (17)

Label Occurrences
postcode area 97
postal abbreviation canonical 41
United States Postal Service state abbreviation 28

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: postal abbreviation
Generated description
A postal abbreviation is a standardized short form of a geographic or administrative name used by postal services to streamline addressing and mail processing.

Instances (182)

Instance Via concept surface
Pakistan Post postal service
LL
surface form: LL postcode area
postcode area
EMS express mail postal service
Wigan postcode area postcode area
IA United States Postal Service state abbreviation
MS United States Postal Service state abbreviation
BT postcode area postcode area
PR
surface form: PR postcode area
postcode area
WN
surface form: WN postcode area
postcode area
GA United States Postal Service state abbreviation
MD United States Postal Service state abbreviation
Chinese provincial abbreviation
Preston postcode area postcode area
KA
surface form: KA postcode area
postcode area
PH postcode area
VS two-letter abbreviation
UT United States Postal Service state abbreviation
HD
surface form: HD postcode area
postcode area
MN
An Post postal service
SP
W postcode area postcode area
N postcode area postcode area
SE postcode area postcode area
AB
NH United States Postal Service state abbreviation
A.C.A. legal abbreviation
BN
surface form: BN postcode area
postcode area
NT
TN U.S. Postal Service state abbreviation
NU
HU postcode area