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From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
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In article <3h5mpp$gpf@ns.rezonet.net>,
Andrew Morrow <amorrow@dataradio.com> wrote:
>> Addresses in Canada should end with:
>> City XX lnl nln
>> CANADA
>> where XX is the 2-letter abbreviation for the province (e.g. ON for
>> Ontario, BC for British Columbia, PQ for Quebec), and "lnl nln" is the
>> six-digit (base 36 :-) postal code.
Actually, it ain't. The 'n' spaces are numeric only, the 'l' alpha only.
>PQ (Province of Quebec) was changed to QC (QuebeC) many years ago, leaving
>DC (District of Columbia) as the only place I can think of that has a
>classification name as part of the abbreviation.
PQ was (and still is) useful in many non-postal contexts, to
differetiate Quebec the province from Quebec the city (and the
province's capitol). Only Anglos refer to it as Quebec City, the
proper French usage is to refer to both as "Quebec", thus the reference
to PQ.
Both PQ and QC are acceptable to the Canadian post office, they'll
deliver the mail equally slowly no matter how you mark it.
--
Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
Novell Unix Master Reseller / evan@telly.on.ca / (905) 452-0504
A happy traveller on the information sidewalk