#the exact state boundaries aren't meaningful cultural lines for the most part

[kiralamouse]

... the reason I don’t tend to add USA to my address is that I’m almost always shipping entirely within the US. Source, destination, and all expected logistics in between. Same reason I don’t add the city and state when I’m sending my address to a friend in town to come to my house.

The idea that it would be unnecessary for international shipping boggles me.

(Also the idea that the US is less of a single country than other countries. Listen, after all the genocide and displacement, there’s hardly a culture in the US that has a geographic attachment to its current place going back more than three or four hundred years. Plenty of places have only been that place for a century or so. You really think that’s going to result in a more deeply embedded cultural distinction than places which have had millennia to fracture and fragment and reform? That Texas and New York will have more differences than provinces which have *frequently* over *centuries* bounced back and forth between different powers, and clung to their provincial identity independent of who rules them?)

one thing I’ve noticed while running an online shop is that Americans never include their country when writing their address.

I don’t mean when filling in online forms, bc that’s obviously a required element. but when emailing me for address changes for orders, they never include a country in the updated address. but I always know the country is the United States of America because literally nobody else around the world would do that.