Ability to export US state 2-letter abbreviations

The general option to make exported address data conform to US postal service guidelines would be great, but a particular subset of that issue seems more pressing: two-letter US state abbreviations. Currently the system seems to import two-letter abbrv. and translates them into full state names (including for export). That is nice for display, but we need those two-letter abbreviations again for export.

I could create an Excel macro to do all the find/replacing but that seems like a bit too much post-export work.

More broadly, maybe data export transformations could be plug-in-able on the export screen, so users could contribute their own sets of transformations and use/ignore them Drupal module-style. On the export screen then there would be a list of available transformations and corresponding checkboxes to apply/ignore them.

You could make the same transformations available for input too, perhaps.

-jesse@idcwebdev.com