US Military APO/FPO addresses

hmmm need a US Military equivalent location.xx.inc file? Or add to the us file?

Not sure how to deal with this one. Also, it may be that sometimes people want to include these as options along with the U.S. states and sometimes they want to exclude them.

I'm am, however, going to close this for now due to a lack of continued interest. If it comes up again, please feel free to re-open or reference if you are trying to make a case for this.

As noted on Wikipedia, the three military 'states' that Ctrl Z linked to above in 2009 are indeed correct, official, and part of the United States Postal Service (USPS). If you drop a letter in the mailbox to one of those three states (AA, AE, and AP), it will be fully serviced by the USPS -- no need to pay a penny extra, even! This is also officially documented at the USPS website, in case the Wikipedia link above is unconvincing.

Some of our sites' users are troops stationed overseas, and their address requires support for AA, AE, and AP.

I'm attaching a patch for this, and hoping it gets fixed quickly!

@YesCT, these should be included in the location.us.inc file, as they are officially part of the United States. They are not a different country.

@ankur, there is no reason that someone would not want to include these three options. They are legitimate mailing options, and well documented above. To the extent that the Location module is used for collecting mailing addresses, to not include AA/AE/AP is like not including California or Florida. Moreover, since the location module uses an autocomplete textfield (as opposed to a select field), people who aren't looking for one of these three options won't ever know it is enabled -- so no worries!

Please let me know if I can further make the case for why this should be included in the location.us.inc file. Thanks!

All data updates have to be rolled against latest 7.x-3.x-dev and after that backported to 6.x-3.x

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#3 commited pushed to both 6.x-3.x and 7.x-3.x dev branches
Thanks!