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Thank you, this is great! One thing - I'm not in USA, and only people in USA, I guess, know those two-letter state abbreviations. I got one where I had to choose based on two two-letter codes I didn't know. Using the whole state name would make it more international.

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Even for those of us in the US, this can be confusing. I had to memorize those codes a long time ago, but I haven't really used most of them in decades. For example, MI. Is that Michigan, Missouri, or Mississippi? (It's Michigan.) MS? Mississippi. MO is Missouri, which isn't intuitive unless you already know the other 2 and realize there isn't a lot of other letters they could use.

So yeah, full names is better. :)

Have you seen the stand-up Gary Gulman's routine about the group that choose the abbreviations? It's a masterclass in comedic storytelling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLECCmKnrys

Got it, will fix this. Thanks for your feedback!

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