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To: Barney59
How about the 'TEXAS' in the address line, it should have been abbreviated in the old style, I would assume... Tex? or did the two letter state abbreviations start in 70?

I'm 54 years old and the abbreviation for Texas has been Tx for as long as I can remember.

189 posted on 09/10/2004 12:18:36 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat

Well, I know Alabama was Ala. now AL, etc...

Thanks, 10-4


269 posted on 09/10/2004 4:38:03 PM PDT by Barney59
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To: TexKat
this is minutiae but here's an article on the abbreviation changes 40 years ago...

http://www.lunewsviews.com/zip.htm
270 posted on 09/10/2004 4:41:44 PM PDT by Barney59
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