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Every journalist worthy of the name knows that the abbreviation for "Maine" is "Maine". That is, like a handful of other short-named states, you never abbreviate it.
Such journalists also know that the two-letter postal codes used by the United States Postal Service aren't abbreviations, and they're never used in print apart from their intended purpose in an address.
Most print journalists are required by their employer to follow AP style. It's not the only one, but it's the most widely used. I don't know which stylebook television stations follow. I wouldn't be surprised if Fox followed no style at all.
Trivia: there were at least 60 two-letter postal codes last time I looked, but that's been a while.