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About ZIP Codes

US ZIP codes are a type of postal code used within the United States to help the United States Postal Service (USPS) route mail more efficiently. ZIP codes near me are shown on the map above. Some still refer to ZIP codes as US postal codes. The term ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The basic 5-digit format was first introduced in 1963 and later extended to add an additional 4 digits after a dash to form a ZIP+4 code. The additional 4 digits help USPS more precisely group mail for delivery. Though ZIP codes were originally developed for USPS, many other shipping companies such as United Parcel Service (UPS), Federal Express (FedEx), DHL, and others make use of ZIP codes for sorting packages and calculating the time and cost of shipping a package (the shipping rate).

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About Zip Code Map

The ZIP Code Map shows the ZIP Codes that are used within the various states of the United States. To make it easier for the user, the states whose Zip Codes start with a particular number (for e.g starting with eight, seven, nine, etc) are shown in similar color.

About US Zip Codes

The USA is a large country, with 50 states divided into counties, parishes, or boroughs. The name ‘county’ is used in 48 states, with Louisiana using ‘parishes,’ and Alaska using ‘boroughs.’ The total number of counties/parishes/boroughs in the United States is 3,077.

Zipcodes are intended to quicken and simplify the process of the delivery of mail. The ‘ZIP’ in Zip Code, is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.

The ‘ZIP code’ history dates to 1963 when the United States Postal Services started this postal code system. This enabled postage to reach its destination in a much more effective and faster way.

If you want to know the ZIP code of a particular place, then Zip Code Finder (below) tool given below is an easy to use utility and one can quickly find the Zip Code of a particular location or find the location by searching through ZIP code.

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The first evidence of the delivery of a paid letter, dates back to 1639, when Richard Fairbanks has sent a letter to Massachusetts on behalf of the government agency in Boston. Already in 1672, under the British colonial administration, there was a regular postal service between New York and Boston. Even at that time it was used a stamp of one or two digits, tones that practically were the forerunners of today’s postal codes. In 1840 were introduced the stamps and later, in 1961, there were established the first postal organizations.

The modern postal code system was introduced on 1 July 1963. At the time there was a five-digit code, which has been narrowed to four digits in 1983. In the USA the zip code indicates the Zones. The improvement plan is managed by the postal service of the United States, United States Postal Service. In North America, the name of the place acts as the ZIP code. In the US, there are about 30,000 post offices, each of which has its own code. The postal codes begin on the east coast and reaches the West, increasing more and more digits. Thus, for example, Agawam, Massachusetts has the lowest numerical code: 99950, while in that Alaska postal code increases by 4 digits.

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The American ZIP code consists of nine digits. The first three digits describe the routing zone (routing) or the center of processing and distribution and the next two numbers define the post office. The two numbers that follow represent the sector and the last two digits are for the segment. Between the fifth and sixth digit it is always a hyphen. The addition of the fourth digit met many difficulty so since today there is no more longer necessary. For a correct notation: top of the line of the Postal Code is the city, followed by the state. Then they are left two spaces before the ZIP code is written, such as

Springfield VA 22162-1010
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ZIP Code & Postal Code Facts

ZIP Codes are largely responsible for the automation of the United States Post Office’s mail handling. Today, over 600,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each business day, and our mail can take as little as one day to reach its destination. Back in 1799, it could take three weeks for a letter to travel from Lexington, Massachusetts to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The cost of mail was relatively much higher back then. It cost twenty-five cents to send a letter 450 miles – not much less than it costs today to send a letter anywhere in the country, and in considerably less time!

Today, many of us in the United States expect to have our mail delivered to our homes and offices at no extra charge. Before July 1, 1863, city residents had to pay to have a postal worker bring their mail to them; rural customers had to travel to pick up their own mail for another 30 years. ZIP Codes wouldn’t have helped much in those days.

Many famous Americans have been postal workers. Benjamin Franklin is known as “The Father of the United States Postal Service.” Abraham Lincoln was postmaster of New Salem, Illinois in the 1830’s, and it is rumored that he personally delivered mail by carrying it in his hat along with a list of delivery places. Harry S. Truman was postmaster of Grandview, Missouri for a time. William Faulkner was postmaster of the University of Mississippi Post Office.

Perhaps the most romantic era in our United States postal history is that of the Pony Express. Before then, stagecoaches took more than 20 days to deliver mail from coast to coast. In 1860, William H. Russell bought strong horses and put a listing for good horseback riders in newspaper ads that read: “Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred.” Russell’s Pony Express was in service for 18 months, cutting the time it took for mail delivery coast to coast in half. The service closed in 1861 when telegraph lines connecting the coasts were finished being laid, allowing people to send information much faster and cheaper than they could by Pony Express.

The history of the United States Post Office is filled with fascinating data and amusing facts. Did you know the first Post Office in the United States was actually a tavern? Or that the United States employed camels to deliver mail over deserts in the Southwest? Or that one of the first airmail deliveries involved a three mile flight, and that the pilot dropped the bag of mail from the flying plane to a postmaster waiting below?

ZIP Codes didn’t come into use until 1963. Their inventor, Robert Aurand Moon, is known as the “Father of ZIP Codes” and was nicknamed “Mr. ZIP Code.” Another character also went by this name: the lovable cartoon ambassador, Mr. Zip or Mr. Zippy, who some think was largely responsible for the success of United States ZIP Code compliance.

And just what are ZIP Codes? And how does the United States Post Office use them? What do the numbers stand for? Where does the ZIP Code data come from? How about the ZIP + 4 Codes? There’s plenty to learn about the Zoning Improvement Plan Codes!

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The primary city name as designated by the United States Postal Service. The USPS designates cities in all uppercase (ie. NEW YORK). The Post Office “city” name associated with a particular ZIP Code in the mailing address for a residence may differ from the legal municipality or district in which the housing unit is actually located.

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5074 HC 56
AGUADA PR 00602-8689
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1 SECT AVELINO VASALLO
ANASCO PR 00610-9781
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107 CALLE A
AGUADILLA PR 00603-1101
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PO BOX 112
AGUADILLA PR 00604-0112
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About United States ZIP-Codes

US ZIP code data depicts the boundaries of all United States districts. These districts are used by the US postal service to aid in efficient mail routing across the country.

Postal code tabulation areas (ZCTAs) are generalized aerial representations of United States Postal Service (USPS) postal code service areas. The USPS identifies post offices or delivery stations associated with individual mailing addresses, and its postal codes are a collection of mail delivery routes known as ZIP-codes.

United States Postal Code Structure

5-Digit postal code areas contain each of the following characters and features:

Current Postal Code Range in the United States

The current postal codes in the United States range from 00001 – 99950. The lowest and highest of these postal codes are both specific to areas in Alaska; The 00001 code is for the N Dillingham area, and the postal code 99950 is for Ketchikan, AK.

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Это страница с Соединённые Штаты Америки почтовым кодом. Эта страница включает в себя следующее содержание: метод кода, пример конверта и формат адреса, способ правильного написания почтового кода, ссылка для запросов почтового индекса.

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ZIP коды системы почтовых кодов, используемых Почтовая служба США (USPS) с 1963 года.Термин ZIP, сокращение от плана улучшения зоны, правильно пишется заглавными буквами и была выбрана, чтобы предположить, что почта путешествует более эффективно, и, следовательно, более быстро, когда отправители использовать код в почтовый адрес.Основной формат состоит из пяти цифр десятичной числовой.Расширенные ZIP +4 код, введенный в 1980-х годов, включает в себя пять цифр почтового индекса, дефис и еще четыре цифры, которые определяют более точную, чем местоположение почтового индекса в одиночку.Термин почтовый индекс был первоначально зарегистрирован как знаки обслуживания (тип товарного знака) на Почтовой службы США, но его регистрация с тех пор истек.

2 2 1 6 2 – 1 0 1 0

Первые три цифры представляют собой зону доставки или обработки и доставки центр, следующие две цифры представляют почтовое отделение или доставки разделе две цифры после «-» представляют сектор, последние две цифры представляют сегмент.

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Описание: Вы можете ввести любой адрес в США, чтобы найти соответствующий почтовый индекс.

Американская Почтовый индекс

Алабама

Почтовый индекс: 35201

35238,35240,35242 35246,35249,35253 35255,35259

Почтовый индекс: 36101

Почтовый индекс: 35801

Почтовый индекс: 35401

Почтовый индекс: 36601

Аляски

Почтовый индекс: 99801

Почтовый индекс: 99501

Аризоне

Почтовый индекс: 85001

Почтовый индекс: 85701

Почтовый индекс: 85201

Арканзас

Почтовый индекс: 72201

Почтовый индекс: 72701

Калифорнии

Почтовый индекс: 94203

94250,94252 94254,94256 94259,94261

94299,95812 95838,95840 95842,95851

Почтовый индекс: 95476

Почтовый индекс: 95101

95161,95164,95170 95173,95190 95194,95196

Почтовый индекс: 90001

Почтовый индекс: 92101

Почтовый индекс: 94101

94112,94114 94147,94150 94157,94159

Колорадо

Почтовый индекс: 80201

80212,80214 80252,80255 80239,80241,80243,80244,80246

80257,80259 80275,80279 80266,80270,80271,80273

List of United States Postal Codes and State Abbreviations

For as long as the states have been around, people have been abbreviating their names. Whether simply for convenience or to comply with the post office’s 23-character per line preference in addresses, state abbreviations are widely used.

State Postal Codes are used all the time and many are immediately obvious. FL stands for Florida, CA for California, and TX for Texas. However not ever abbreviation is so easy. Does AL stand for Alaska or Alabama? (Spoiler: it’s Alabama). What is Louisiana’s abbreviation, again? (LO for Louisiana, not LA).

These commonly used abbreviations were standardized in October 1963 by the U.S. Post Office (USPS). Before that, the preferred state abbreviations were mostly 4 letters.

Since 1963, the Post Office has changed only one code. In 1969, Nebraska was changed from NB to NE. This change was done for consistency sake. Most other states’ abbreviations are the first two letters of the state unless two states start with the same two letters.

Check the sortable table below for a complete list of the official state Postal Codes and abbreviations.

† Nebraska Postal Code was originally «NB». USPS changed Nebraska to «NE» in November 1969.

United states postal code

Quick Access: Go to the INDEX and click on a country name.

CONTENTS

Disclaimer: MAINTAINANCE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS WAS A PUBLIC SERVICE OF the ex-KERMIT PROJECT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. It was was originally written for our own business purposes (international shipping of our software in the pre-Internet days) and does not claim to be definitive, complete, systematic, up to date, or unopinionated. All opinions and conclusions are those of the author (or the contributors or references cited). Apologies for any inappropriate terminology, especially since this document aims to eradicate it. Format: handmade HTML with accented or non-Roman characters encoded in UTF-8, properly announced to allow inclusion of text in many languages and scripts. For more information about UTF-8 CLICK HERE and HERE.

Updates: The 14 November 2000 edition adds links to postal authorities in many countries, which are recapitulated alphabetically (in English) in the INDEX at the end. The 15 May 2001 edition adds ISO 3166-1 codes to the country list in Index; this is the familiar Internet top-level domain (TLD) for each country (in most cases), and these are also used on international mail containers, machine-readable passports, and in national currency identifiers. Lots of corrections and expansion in January 2003. The February 2003 version is much expanded, including new tables and sections for Africa, the Mideast, Latin America, and with each country name in the Index linking back to the relevant section of the main document. In June 2003, the tables of English, Scottish, and Welsh counties, which are no longer used in UK addresses, was moved out to a separate file and the UK section was modernized.

The UTF-8 conversion was done on 20 January 2003; the previous ISO-8859-1 Latin Alphabet 1 version, current as of that date, remains available HERE (but won’t be updated). The UTF-8 version includes text in Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Thai, Khmer, and other scripts that can’t be represented in Latin-1 but are easily accommodated by UTF-8. Most of this text is in the COUNTRY INDEX. Anybody who can supply missing country names or other relevant items in native language and script is welcome to send them in; I’ll be glad to add them (with credit, of course).

Periodic updates of any postal reference are necessary because countries change, provinces within countries change, postal codes change, addressing standards and recommendations change. The Internet makes matters simultaneously better and worse: better because now we can link to the postal authorities in each country and to other relevant sites, worse because web addresses change out from underneath us constantly. Thus any document like this is doomed to decay over time if it’s not constantly maintained. The last update time is shown at the top. Feel free to report stale links, or send corrections, suggestions, or new information, by e-mail to fdc@columbia.edu.

General information and corrections: Daniel Schwarz, Marty Simon, Linda Beek, Dan Olsson, Peter Russell, Ken Westmoreland, Gert Grenander, Marcy Strawmyer, Mark Brader, László Kende, Tex Texin, Helgi Jonsson, Roozbeh Pournader, Tom Gewecke, Magda Danish, Stuart Brown, Noah Levitt, Herman Ranes. Miikka-Markus Alhonen, Marco Cimarosti, Kent Karlsson, Celvin Niklas Jojakin Ruisdael, Hans Schievelkamp, Pete Russel, Doug Ewell, Philip Newton, Jim Brent, Christian Rosner, Howard Laker, Cassandra Phillips-Sears, Austin Knight, G. Herbke, Joshua Holman, George Rhoten, Jay Davis, Tom Richards, Malik Kalfane, Jean-Christophe Deschamps, Chris Morris, Bettina Morton, Gregg Lobdell, Paul Buhler, Steve Williamson, John Sawyer, Anthony P. Lew, the IBM International Components for Unicode (ICU) library, and the Web page Country names in various languages by Werner Fröhlich for several of the native-script country names (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, etc).

INTRODUCTION

This document tries to describe – or invent when necessary – conventions for addressing postal mail from within the USA to other countries that are both (a) effective (i.e. have a good chance of working), and (b) as inoffensive as possible when addressing choices might be controversial. Note that the general problem – how to address mail from country A to country B, for all A’s and B’s – is an n × n problem, of which this document attempts to address only one dimension: mail from the USA to elsewhere. But even this is a moving target as addressing guidelines and formats of each country are constantly revised.

The very term country can be controversial. Who decides what is a country and what isn’t? The criterion used in this document is simple: if the USPS lists it in its Index to Countries and Localities, we treat it as a country. Thus some localities (such as Reunion Island) that are not distinct countries are listed, whereas other localities that consider themselves countries (such as Western Sahara) are not listed (but still discussed). Rationale: if you address mail from the USA to WESTERN SAHARA, the USPS won’t know what to do with it. If you want to send mail to SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON (a part of France that is in Canada) from the USA, it doesn’t make sense for the mail to go all the way to France and back.

Similarly, saying that a particular country is in Europe or Africa or Latin America or Asia or the Middle East can be controversial. Where does Russia go? Turkey? Egypt? The Falkland Islands (Malvinas)? I’ve made a few groupings like this for convenience, e.g. to keep the number of tables to a minimum and avoid duplications – these choices are purely logistical and not political or ideological.

The best international addressing strategy is one that is not only consistent and inoffensive, but that also achieves to whatever degree possible several potentially conflicting goals:

ISO International Standard 11180, Postal Addressing (1993) (withdrawn 15 Jan 2004), by the way, was no help at all, except that it contained a reference to the Universal Postal Union:

which provides tip sheets for addressing mail to each country. But there is no way to tell how authoritative or current the UPU guidelines are – they are not dated, and they give no references. But for some countries, the UPU provides the only guidance available. It should also be noted that addressing guidelines are incidental to the UPU’s primary mission, which is creating standards for the description of postal addresses (that is, defining and naming the elements), not for their rendition, which is left to each country.

August 2006: The UPU’s website has changed a lot since I wrote the previous paragraph. The addressing recommendations for each country, which are found HERE, now have dates, and have more information (e.g. lists of state/province abbreviations, additional examples), and there is a comprehensive page of links to postcode lookups for each member country HERE.

April 2022: The UPU’s website has changed a lot since I wrote the previous paragraph. The addressing recommendations for each country seem to have disappeared and there is no postcode lookup.

USPS Service Updates The United States Postal service delivers mail to most of the countries on earth, but there are some exceptions and restrictions owing to politics (Cuba), war (Gaza), natural disasters (Haiti), or other factors such as isolation (Pitcairn Island). To see the current list of affected countries, visit the USPS Service Updates page.

Note: At some point USPS converted its website from http: to https:, but without forwarding the old URLs to the new ones, thus breaking every USPS link in this page, and in many other pages too, no doubt. All USPS links in this page were converted to https in July 2017, but not every single one of them has been tested; if you find nonfunctional USPS (or any other) links, please let me know.

Abbreviations and Acronyms:

IMM	International Mail Manual (USPS)
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
PDF	Portable Document Format (Adobe Acrobat)
UPU	Universal Postal Union
USA	United States of America
USPS	United States Postal Service

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

As a basis for discussion, let’s begin by looking at a typical international address:

JOE BLOGGS	Person’s name
COMPUTER CENTER	Department (if any)
CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY	Institution or Company (if any)
309 KENT STREET	Street Address (or Post Office Box)
BENTLEY WA 6102	City Line (WA = Western Australia)
AUSTRALIA	Country Name

It illustrates several points, all of which are discussed later in greater detail:

Order of Presentation In the USA, we write addresses in minor-to-major order, with the most specific (smallest) item (e.g. person’s name) at the top, proceeding to the most general (largest) item (i.e. country name) at the bottom. This order is not necessarily used in other countries (e.g. Iran, Russia), but since we are sending mail from the USA, it might be safer to use it in all cases because our own postal service must process the address first.

The Country Name For domestic mail (mail within the USA), we omit the country name. For all other countries, we write the country name as the last line, by itself, in all CAPITAL LETTERS, with no accompanying notations such as postal codes, or hints as to which continent the country is on. We use country names consistently; they are listed in the Index. In the USA and many other countries, postal sorting machines read and sort by the country name. Thus within each country, the country name list must be well-known and standardized.

According to USPS officials that I interviewed in 2002: unless the country name is CANADA, the USPS does not read and does not care about anything that appears above it. International mail from the USA to any country but Canada goes to a single location in that country for sorting and separation. Thus when sending mail from the USA to any other country we are free to format the address according to the requirements of the destination country (for mail to Canada, the addressing requirements conform to our own; for details see the section on Canada).

I’m not sure it is still true (in 2004) that the USPS does not care about different destinations within a big country. Recent editions of the IMM seem to imply otherwise, e.g. by including long lists of cities in different countries, complete with postcodes. See the section on the Former Soviet Union.

The City Line The line just above the country name shows the town, and sometimes the major subdivision of the country, known as the state, province, county, district, territory, land, shire, department, canton, prefecture, oblast, autonomous region, etc, depending on the country, and often a postal code to aid in automated sorting. We call this the City Line. Since the USPS does not read or care about this line (except in mail to Canada and, by some accounts, the UK), it can and should be formatted as required by the destination country.

A handful of national postal authorities now recommend writing postal code on a line by itself, above or below the city line (Ecuador, Ukraine, Hungary. and now also the UK). In such cases, the City Line occupies two lines. As far as I can tell, this is a recent development and is largely ignored in many of the countries that recommend it (e.g. Russia). In any case, it makes formatting and parsing international addresses all the more complicated, and might also cause addresses to exceed address-line limits, where they did not before (e.g. for postal scanners, databases, forms, or window envelopes).

Hungary is a special case. Zsbán Ambrus reports (December 2016):

While the United States might ignore the destination city in international mail, other countries do not necessarily do so. For example, mail from England to Los Angeles is sent directly to Los Angeles, whereas a letter to New York goes on a flight to New York. The journey of a letter from Nome (Alaska) to Provideniya (Siberia), if sent westward rather than east, could be 23,000 miles shorter if the USPS processed the city line.

The following table shows a sampling of City Line formats. Punctuation shown in the Format column is to be taken literally:

Format	Examples
town, province postalcode	India
town province postalcode	USA, Canada, Australia
postalcode town-province	Brazil
postalcode town, province	China, México
postalcode town (provincia)	Italy
postalcode town	Most other European countries & ex-USSR; Israel
town postalcode	New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, Singapore
town, county	Ireland (except Dublin)
town postalcode	UK, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Swaziland
town street-addess postalcode	Hungary
postalcode town	Ecuador, Sudan
town	Hong Kong, Syria, Iraq

In the formats above, province stands for whatever each country calls its subdivisions (e.g. state in the USA), and often is abbreviated according to local postal standards. Here are some variables in City Line format, all of which are illustrated later in this document:

Upper and Lower Case The postal authorities of the USA, Canada, UK, and many other countries recommend that the City Line (and preferably the entire address) be written in ALL UPPERCASE. In the UK, the City Line (Post Town) and postcode should use only capital letters, but the remainder of the address can (but need not) be in mixed case.

State/Province In some countries (like the USA, Canada, and Australia) the province (state, county, etc) is necessary, in others it is omitted, and in others it is either optional, or needed in some cases but omitted in others.

Punctuation In some countries (like Ireland) punctuation must be used in the City Line, but in others (like the USA, Canada, and Australia), it should not be used.

Postal Codes Postal codes, in countries that have them, are usually numeric, sometimes containing a space or a hyphen. Different countries use different terms for postal codes (e.g. Zone Improvement Plan, Postleitzahl) and different abbreviations for the terms (e.g. ZIP, PLZ, CEP, CAP, PIN). See the Wikepedia page on Postal codes.

For the lines above the city line, each country has its own standards, which are discussed to some extent in the sections on individual countries such as Cuba and México, but for details consult the postal authority websites of each country, which are accessible from the tables at the beginning of each main section of this document. For the purposes of international mail, the main thing is to get the country line right so the USPS sends it to the right country, and city line right so the main receiving depot in the country can route it to the right town or city, whose local post office will deal with the rest.

In the years and decades since I started working on this page in the 1980s, resources have appeared that today are likely much more current, comprehensive, and well-maintained; for example the Wikipedia List of Postal Codes, its pages for each country, its page on the Universal Postal Union, etc.

When sending international mail:

CLICK HERE to see the current USPS list of country names. You will note that in some cases more than one name is accepted for a given country. You should pick one, as we have done here, for consistency in databases, sorting, etc.

The form you choose depends on your own database and record-keeping requirements, for which is it always best to use consistent city names.

When sending mail to Russia, Israel, Greece, Armenia, China, etc, it is perfectly acceptable to write the lines above the City Line in the native script. According to the USPS IMM, it is also OK to write the City Line in the native script, but it must also be written in English below the native script and above the Country Line (USPS guideline (d) below):

Obviously if you don’t have a way to write the address in Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek, etc, it can be transliterated in whatever way is most acceptable at the receiving end. Most countries that use non-Roman writing systems can deliver letters that are addressed in Roman transliteration – Russia, Greece, Israel, most Arab countries, Japan, Korea, and both Chinas among them.

For mail to México, Italy, France, etc, if you can print accented Roman letters, all the better. If you can’t, leave off the accents or transliterate according to language-specific rules (as in German ä to ae – see section on Germany).

Never put ATTN: person’s name or any other notations such as apartment number below the City or Country Line. This interferes with automatic sorting and can slow down delivery. (Personally, I think bureaucratic notations like ATTN are useless – if you have addressed your mail to a person, then of course it is for their attention.)

Americans should avoid referring to other countries’ postal codes as Zip codes, and also should not call other countries’ administrative subdivisions states. These are common errors on address forms. Use «State or Province» and Zip or Postal Code on your address forms. It’s not perfect, but it indicates that we understand that other countries can have their own terminology.

The USPS used to list the following general addressing guidelines (2019); most (but not all) of these points apply also to international mail:

In the absence of more-specific guidelines, don’t put more than six lines (including the country name) in an international address, nor more than 38 characters in any line (these are the requirements for France). Pieces that do not follow the guidelines are liable to be rejected by automatic sorting machines, slowing down their delivery.

Here’s an example of a well-formed address for mail from the USA to Canada:

It conforms to both US and Canadian postal addressing guidelines. It’s printed in a fixed font with all capital letters and contains absolutely no punctuation. The lines go from most specific at the top to most general at the bottom. The City Line includes the official province abbreviation with no comma and two spaces before the postal code, which is the format recommended by Canada Post. The country line is at the bottom. The postal code goes in the City Line, not the Country Line, on the left or right according to the standard of the destination country.

POST OFFICE BOXES AND GENERAL DELIVERY

For general delivery (poste restante – to be called for ), the addressee’s name must match the name on the proof of identity (such as a passport) that the addressee will show upon picking up the mail. In the United States, the +4 part of the ZIP+4 code for General Delivery is 9999, and for a Post Office Box, the last four digits of the PO Box number.

THE USA

USA address format is:

where ST is the official USPS 2-letter state or territory abbreviation from the table below with no comma preceding it, followed by the ZIP or ZIP+4, for example:

in which ST, NW, STE, and NY are abbreviations recognized by USPS (for Street, Northwest, Suite, and New York, respectively). If ZIP+4 is used, the two parts of the ZIP code must be separated by a single dash (and no spaces). The state abbreviation and ZIP code should be separated by one or two spaces (depending on which recommendation you read). Examples:

Uppercase is used, as recommended by the USPS, for ease of automatic scanning and application of bar codes. See the USPS ZIP Code directory or other relevant publications for additional addressing recommendations such as the format of street addresses, recommended abbreviations, etc, all of which help to keep your mail from being rejected by the automatic sorters. Some useful information on USA addresses can be found at the USPS Website:

In cases where the street name and number might be too long (e.g. for a database field, or for an automatic reader), any part of this line that denotes a sub-part of the main address (e.g. an apartment or suite number) can or should be put on a separate line above the street name and number:

AA Armed Forces Americas AE Armed Forces Europe AK Alaska AL Alabama AP Armed Forces Pacific AR Arkansas AS American Samoa AZ Arizona CA California CO Colorado CT Connecticut DC District of Columbia DE Delaware FL Florida FM Federated Micronesia GA Georgia GU Guam HI Hawaii IA Iowa ID Idaho IL Illinois

IN Indiana KS Kansas KY Kentucky LA Louisiana MA Massachusetts MD Maryland ME Maine MH Marshall Islands MI Michigan MN Minnesota MO Missouri MP N. Mariana Islands MS Mississippi MT Montana NC North Carolina ND North Dakota NE Nebraska NH New Hampshire NJ New Jersey NM New Mexico NV Nevada

NY New York OH Ohio OK Oklahoma OR Oregon PA Pennsylvania PR Puerto Rico PW Palau RI Rhode Island SC South Carolina SD South Dakota TN Tennessee TX Texas UT Utah VA Virginia VI US Virgin Islands VT Vermont WA Washington WI Wisconsin WV West Virginia WY Wyoming

Military addresses use APO (Army or Air Force Post Office) or FPO (Fleet Post Office for the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard) instead of the city name, and then the state name is AA (for Americas), AE (for Europe), or AP (for Pacific), e.g.:

Mail addressed to Overseas Military members must be addressed to a specific individual. Mail addressed to “Any Service member”, “Occupant” or similar type generic name will not be processed or delivered to the address listed on the mail piece.

As of 2009, certain diplomatic sites have DPO (Diplomatic Post Office) addresses, similar to APO addresses (DPO AA, DPO AE, DPO AP, followed by Zip or, preferably, Zip+4), as in this example for the US Embassy in Rabat, Morocco:

DPO Addresses do not use PSC or CMRs in their addressing system. Diplomatic installations that don’t have DPO addresses can be mailed to in care of the US State Department in Washington DC. All others require international mail.

APO/FPO/DPO addresses can be used only from the USA or other areas served by the US Post Office, or from other APO/FPO/DPO addresses. Mail from elsewhere to these locations must be addressed through the town, city, and country in which the military or diplomatic installation is located, e.g.:

(That is the address given by the embassy, but it should have postal code.) You can always refer to the USPS Postal Bulletin (see References below) published every two weeks to see if APO/FPO/DPO zip codes are valid and refer to the restrictions or limitations on certain articles and sizes of articles that could be prohibited.

CANADA

The Canada city line format is like the USA format:

No commas or other punctuation*, postal code on the right separated by two spaces. Upper case is preferred but not required except in the postal code. Example:

Canada has 2-letter abbreviations for its provinces and territories, just like we have for our states, and which do not conflict with ours:

Symbol	English Name	French Name	Inuktitut Name
AB	Alberta	Alberta
BC	British Columbia	Colombie-Britannique
MB	Manitoba	Manitoba
NB	New Brunswick	Nouveau-Brunswick
NL (3)	Newfoundland and Labrador	Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
NT (1)	Northwest Territories	Territoires du Nord-Ouest
NS	Nova Scotia	Nouvelle-Écosse
NU (1)	Nunavut	Nunavut	ᓄᓇᕗᑦ
ON	Ontario	Ontario
PE	Prince Edward Island	Île-du-Prince-Édouard
QC (2)	Quebec	Québec
SK	Saskatchewan	Saskatchewan
YT	Yukon	Yukon

Doug Ewell has written a report on the semantics of Canadian postal codes; CLICK HERE for details.

The city or town name must not be translated. If the official name of the municipality is French, it must be written in French including accents; if it is English, it must be written in English. Canadian postal policies emphasize equal treatment of English and French, but they do not mention other languages of Canada such as Inuktitut, Cree, Lakota, Micmac, Ojibwa, etc. I assume that locality names must be written in Roman letters and not Canadian Syllabics, although I could not find any statements to that effect at the Canada Post website. In Nunavut, the Inuit languages Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun are official languages, along with French and English; road signs are in both Roman and Inuit Syllabics – what about mail?

By the way, it turns out that even French town names with accents are stored internally in uppercase ASCII without accents, as you can see in postcode lookup. (In February 2020, Benoît Le Nabec clarifies: «In fact, both are accepted. If you enter the city name with accents the application ‘Find a Postal Code’ will return the city name with or without accents as a choice.»

Links (last checked: 22 September 2017):

Canadian postal humor: Canada Post doesn’t really charge 32 cents for a stamp. It’s 2 cents for postage and 30 cents for storage. (Gerald Regan, Cabinet Minister, 31 Dec 1983 Financial Post)

THE CARIBBEAN

Here’s a summary table of Caribbean localities showing the USPS country name (see INDEX for local, long, and other forms), ISO 3166 Alpha-2 Code, United Nations Car Code (these codes are explained in the section on Europe), postcode format (if any), and sample City line. As far as I can tell, neither ISO nor Car codes are used in Caribbean postal addresses. The right two columns are taken from the Universal Postal Union, when available (a surprising number are not). In the postcode format, n indicates a digit and L indicates an uppercase letter; italic words like town and island are to be replaced by actual town or island names. Country names link to the country’s postal authority website, if known, or other relevant site, if any.

Anguilla has a single postal code, AI-2640 for everybody.

See the Bermuda Yellow Pages website for a list of postcodes, as well as for the proper way to address a letter in Bermuda (27 June 2012).

LATIN AMERICA

Here’s a summary table of Latin American countries showing the USPS country name (see INDEX for local, long, and other forms), ISO 3166 Alpha-2 Code, United Nations Car Code (these codes are explained in the section on Europe), postcode format (if any), and sample City line. As far as I can tell, neither ISO nor Car codes are used in Latin American postal addresses. The right two columns are taken from the Universal Postal Union except where I had better information. In the postcode format, n indicates a digit and L indicates an uppercase letter; italic words like town and district are to be replaced by actual town or district names. Non-italic letters, spaces, and hyphens are to be taken literally (such as CP, which stands for Código Postal, Postal Code). Country names link to the country’s postal authority website, if known, or other relevant site.

USPS Name	ISO	Car	City Line Format	City Line Example
ARGENTINA	AR	RA	LnnnnLLL town	S3000ADQ SANTA FE
BELIZE	BZ	BH	town	BELIZE CITY
BOLIVIA	BO	BOL	town	COCHABAMBA
BRAZIL	BR	BR		40301-110 SALVADOR-BA
CHILE	CL	RCH	nnnnnnn town	6500709 SANTIAGO
COLOMBIA	CO	CO	town	BOGOTÁ
COSTA RICA*	CR	CR	nnnnn town	10104 SAN JOSÉ
CUBA	CU	C	CP nnnnn town	CP 10600 CIUDAD DE LA HABANA
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	DO	DOM	nnnnn town	10902 SANTO DOMINGO
ECUADOR	EC	EC	LnnnnL town	P0133B QUITO
EL SALVADOR	SV	ES	CP nnnnn district town	CP 01120 MEJICANOS SAN SALVADOR
FRENCH GUIANA	GF	--	nnnnn town	97300 CAYENNE
GUATEMALA	GT	GCA	nnnnn-town	09001-QUETZALTENANGO
GUYANA	GY	GUY	town	GEORGETOWN
HAITI	HT	RH	nnnn town	6110 PORT-AU-PRINCE
HONDURAS	HN	--	nnnnn town	11101 TEGUCIGALPA DC
MEXICO	MX	MEX	nnnnn town, LL	02860 MÉXICO, DF
NICARAGUA	NI	NIC	nnnnn town	43000 GRANADA
PANAMA	PA	PA	town	PANAMÁ
PARAGUAY	PY	PY	nnnn town	1209 ASUNCION
PERU	PE	PE	town	LIMA 39
PUERTO RICO	PR	--	(Address through USA)
SURINAME	SR	SME	town	PARAMARIBO
URUGUAY	UY	ROU	nnnnn town	11000 MONTEVIDEO
VENEZUELA	VE	YV	town nnnn state	CARACAS 1010 DISTRITO CAPITAL

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23 December 2021: John Franco-Arboine points out that the Zip Codes of Costa Rica were designed based on province, canton, and district. All districts in Costa Rica correspond to a single zip code and that the system can be extended from 5 digits to 9 digits by subdividing each district into sectors and areas: https://correos.go.cr/codigo-postal/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Costa_Rica https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:C%C3%B3digos_postales_de_Costa_Rica

Buscar códigos postales en Latinoamérica y Norteamérica

Ésta es nueva sección del documento, todavía le falta mucho trabajo y averiguaciones. Al alcanzarme el tiempo voy a mejorarla, buscando nuevos enlaces para los países «desaparecidos» o sin enlaces. Mientras tanto si tienes mayor información favor de mandármela, gracias.

Detailed sections on México, Brazil, Cuba, and Colombia follow this section.

When addressing mail to a Latin American country, don’t write SOUTH AMERICA or CENTRAL AMERICA under the country name.

Venezuelan city lines include the city name, then the 4-digit postal code, then either ESTADO followed by the state name or else DISTRITO CAPITAL (formerly DISTRITO FEDERAL) for Caracas. The postcode might have a letter suffix:

You can address French Guiana through France; it’s part of the French postcode and delivery system. You should also be able to address it directly too, thus avoiding the double ocean crossing.

Note that Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Uruguay (according to the UPU) write the postal code on its own line. As always, postcodes are in flux. The examples above (current as of January 2003) are contrasted with examples from our own database from just a few years prior:

The postal system of Costa Rica is notoriously quirky. A system of postcodes is being instituted in two steps, beginning in 2007. A video (narrated in Spanish) is available on the Correos de Costa Rica website explaining the steps. The first is 5 digit postal code (código postal) in which the first digit is the province (provincia), the second and third denote the county (cantón), and the last two the district (distrito) within the cantón. Then, since few Costa Rican streets have names and houses do not tend to have house numbers; a second step will create numeric codes for streets and addresses covering the whole country.

MÉXICO

For purposes of addressing mail from within the USA, the name of the country is MEXICO. In Spanish, the ‘e’ has an acute accent: México. In Spain and parts of Latin America, some people prefer the more phonetic spelling, «Méjico» (just as in the USA, some Texans might prefer to write «Tejas»).

México has states (estados) like Jalisco, Sonora, etc, which are included in the address. The state for México City is DF (Distrito Federal = Federal District), similar to Washington DC in the USA or Canberra ACT in Australia. DF is divided into Delegaciones including México City, San Jerónimo, etc.

Postal codes are 5 digits. Examples:

Here are the states of México and their abbreviations (source: Wikipedia 22 May 2019):

«México» is the state of Mexico (as opposed to the country or the city). The two-letter codes are not official, but are widely recognized and used. The three-letter code is specified in ISO 3166-2:MX. I suspect that «MX» is not really part of the code, but in any case the only official guidance I can find for Mexican Postal addresses (May 2019), which is:

Daniel González Ortiz Apartado Postal Administración Calvillo A44 20801 Calvillo, Aguascalientes MEXICO

The 5-digit postal code goes on the left, then the town or city, a comma, and the state abbreviation. In large cities, I am told it is important to put Colonia for District (when known) in Mexican addresses, for example:

Some terms and abbreviations included in Mexican addresses are listed in the table below. Of states, municipalities, and their subdivisions there is not a strict hierarchy; for example, a municipio may contain several cities, or a city may contain several municipios (similar to how New York City contains several counties).

Estado	State
Municipio	Municipality (major subdivision of estado, similar to a county)
Ciudad, Cd.	City
Colonia, Col.	Neighborhood of city
Localidad	City or town within a municipio
Población	A populated place (city, town, or village)
Delegación	Administrative subdivision of a city, like a borough
Asentamiento	Subdivision of a municipio
Apartado	(Apartado Postal, Apartado de Correos, Casilla Postal) Post office box
Calle	Street
CP	Código Postal (postal code)

Mexpost: México Postal Service	correosdemexico.com.mx
Manual de Asignación de Códigos Postales y Estandarización de Domicilios Postales	Correos de México, Diciembre 2016
Postcode lookup	Try this Google search

BRAZIL

Brazilian addresses have states (estados) and a 5+3-digit postal code (CEP, Código de Endereçamento Postal) that goes on the left. The state goes on the right, separated by a dash. There should be no other punctuation. Example:

The state for Brasilia is DF (Distrito Federal), like Washington DC, e.g.:

it should be written as:

The states of Brazil and their official abbreviations are:

AC Acre AL Alagoas AP Amapá AM Amazonas BA Bahía CE Ceará DF Distrito Federal ES Espirito Santo GO Goiás

MA Maranhão MT Mato Grosso MS Mato Grosso do Sul MG Minas Geraís PR Paraná PB Paraíba PA Pará PE Pernambuco PI Piauí

RN Rio Grande do Norte RS Rio Grande do Sul RJ Rio de Janeiro RO Rondônia RR Roraima SC Santa Catarina SE Sergipe SP São Paulo TO Tocantins

Noticed in July 2007: Brazil seems to have joined the countries that are putting the postal code as the bottom line, as you can see if you look at the current version of Formas de Endereçamento (link just below), although it seems the format described here is still accepted. Examples of the two formats (from the Brazil post website):

I suspect the first («old») format is better for sending mail to Brazil from the USA, because USPS expects the see the city line just above the country name.

Correios Brasil	Brazil Post	http://www.correios.com.br/
Consulta de CEP	Postcode Lookup	http://www.correios.com.br/servicos/cep/default.cfm
Formas de Endereçamento	Addressing Guidelines	http://www.correios.com.br/servicos/cep/cep_formas.cfm

Monday, September 16, 2013, Reuters: The United States and Cuba sit down on Monday in Havana for a second round of talks on re-establishing direct mail services between the two countries after a 50-year ban.

Direct mail service between the USA and Cuba has been suspended since 1963. Mail addressed to Cuba from the USA or vice versa is routed through third countries such as Mexico and can take weeks to arrive. Starting in 2009 there have been preliminary meetings on re-establishing a direct postal link.

Mail other than first-class mail (letters) from the USA to Cuba is restricted by US law: parcels, gifts, materials of any kind; only certain things are allowed, as described in this USPS web page. Similarly, letters and postcards from Cuba will be delivered, packages probably not. Commercial package services such as Fedex and UPS do not deliver to Cuba.

Direct mail service between the USA and Cuba was reinstated March 16, 2016, by President Obama (see article). But (at least as of October 20, 2020) there are many restrictions (see USPS page).

Cuban addresses are written like this:

After this line may be the Reparto (zone) and Municipio; that is, minor divisions, for example:

«esq.» (esquina, corner) can be used instead of e/ (between) when the house is on the corner, for example:

In practice the CP is rarely used and mail, if otherwise properly addressed, can be delivered without it.

The divisions of Cuba are:

A reparto or barrio is a division of a city or town, whereas a communidad is an isolated zone («oasis de casas dentro del campo desierto») outside of the town but which falls within its jurisdiction; for example in the municipio of Nuevitas is the town Playa Santa Lucía, and some 3km distant is the communidad Palmas de Lucía (meanwhile capital city of the municipio of Nuevitas is the ciudad of Nuevitas).

Note that the general scheme does not apply to Ciudad de La Habana, which is a Provincia. There are many Municipios without Ciudad or Pueblo; for example, Ciudad de La Habana has these general options:

Ciudad de La Habana → Municipio → Pueblo → Reparto or Barrio
Ciudad de La Habana → Municipio → Reparto or Barrio

And for Municipio Especial Isla de la Juventud, the scheme is:

Municipio Especial Isla de la Juventud → Ciudad o Pueblo → Reparto o Barrio

The Provincias, with their recommended abbreviations, are:

PR	Pinar del Río	CA	Ciego de Ávila
CH	Ciudad de La Habana	CG	Camagüey
HA	La Habana	LT	(Victoria de) Las Tunas
MT	Matanzas	HO	Holguín
VC	Villa Clara	GR	Granma (Bayamo)
CF	Cienfuegos	SC	Santiago de Cuba
SS	Sancti Spíritus	GT	Guantánamo
IJ	Municipio Especial Isla de la Juventud Municipio Especial Isla de la Juventud is a special municipio; that is, not a provincia, but treated as a provincia. COLOMBIA (This section by Felipe Zapata Roldán, 11 December 2005) In Colombia, the postal code system has not been implemented yet, but there’s a plan to do it in the near future (postal codes exist but they are not used). A standard mailing address (residential, commercial, or industrial) looks like this: NAME COMPANY DEPARTMENT/DIVISION (May contain the building and office number) STREET ADDRESS CITY, DEPARTMENT (Department = state, optional) COLOMBIA The format of the street address is: Important: In Colombia, for natural persons, we use both father’s last name and mother’s maiden name. it’s better if you know them. still, if you don’t, there’s no problem. There’s also a special kind of address, the Colombian P.O. Box, or Apartado Aéreo or A.A., meaning something like ‘airmail post office box’; here’s an example: No name, no company, no nothing. that’s all optional. All that is needed is a number up to 5 digits and the name of the city. Any citizen or company may open an A.A., and just like in many countries they have to pay a maintenance fee. AUSTRALIA Australia uses the same address format as the USA and Canada. It has 4-digit numeric postal codes and the following states, always abbreviated in caps as follows: Abbrev Full Name Postboxes and Large Users Street Addresses ACT Australian Capital Territory 0200-0299 2600-2639 NSW New South Wales 1000-1999 2000-2599, 2620-2914 NT Northern Territory 0900-0999 0800-0899 QLD Queensland 9000-9999 4000-4999 SA South Australia 5800-5999 5000-5799 TAS Tasmania 7800-7999 7000-7499 VIC Victoria 8000-8999 3000-3999 WA Western Australia 6800-6999 6000-6799 NSW includes Norfolk Island; WA includes Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Island. ACT includes the Jervis Bay Territory, which shares the 2540 postcode with surrounding areas in NSW, but is addressed as «JERVIS BAY ACT 2540″*. Write Australian city lines as follows: Use all uppercase letters, no punctuation, put two spaces before and after the state abbreviation. Examples: NEW ZEALAND New Zealand, like Australia, uses 4-digit postal codes but until recently they have been relatively optional, used mainly for presorting bulk mail. New Zealand Post didn’t even show them in their own contact addresses: All this has changed. As noted on the New Zealand Post website: The change took effect in June 2006. The old postcodes are invalid. The hard cutover took place in June 2008. must be used on bulk mail and the postcode can be omitted from regular mail. The new postcodes are now required on all mail. Examples showing the new and old postcodes: Upper and lower case may be used in all parts of the address, but for the benefit of USPS, the name of the country, NEW ZEALAND, must be written in all uppercase. The former NZ Post requirement for lots of space between the town name and postal code has been dropped, one or two spaces are now sufficient. A reader, Paul, points out (in 2018) that New Zealand does not have states or provinces, so if a Web or paper form requires you to enter one you can use a «region»; these are listed in Wikipedia; for example: (Owairaka is the suburb name.) Also note that 6/123 means Flat (Apartment) 6 at 123 Great South Road. The following address, however, is in downtown Auckland and so does not have a suburb. New Zealand has Post Office Boxes, and they also have something special called Private Bags and Private Boxes. Private Box is another term for Post Office Box. If a Post Office Box is used, it must be abbreviated P O (space after P and after O): Private Bag / Box addresses might or might not have a Bag or Box number. When there is a number, it must not contain any spaces or punctuation: Rural Delivery routes, like Post Office boxes, require spaces as in the following example: The last two digits of NZ postcodes denote the mode of delivery. To take Palmerston North as an example: EUROPE (The UK and Ireland have their own sections towards the end of this document.) Europe is an imprecise term, especially as it relates to which countries are part of it and which are not. Geographical, political, and cultural definitions tend to disagree. Furthermore, countries such as Spain, France, Denmark, and the Netherlands that are indisputably European might include parts that are elsewhere. CLICK HERE for a discussion. All European countries except Ireland have postal codes. They are almost always written on the left-hand side of the City line, before the name of the town or city. The format of the postcode itself varies from country to country: number of digits, grouping, and in a few cases an alphabetic part. Beginning in 1994, car codes were supposed to be replaced by ISO 3166 Alpha-2 codes, but it seems this was not done to any great extent outside of Scandinavia. Thus for some decades (say 1970-1994) a letter to Sweden would have a City and Country line like the following (note: two spaces recommended after the postcode): Then in 1995 this became: More recently in most European countries, the recommendation is to omit the country prefix for internal mail, but to use it for international mail. Many countries (not all) also recommend all uppercase letters for better automatic sorting results: The situation is definitely confusing with postal standards, guidelines, and examples in flux and in conflict. The Universal Postal Union recommends that the ISO Alpha-2 Country Code be used for international mail, and that the country code prefix be omitted on domestic mail (e.g. within Italy), but of course the local standards of each country prevail, and to confound matters, Alpha-2 codes can change or (worse) be recycled; for example, Czechoslovakia was CS but when it split into the Czech and Slovak Republics in 1993 the codes became became CZ and SK, respectively; then in 2003 Serbia and Montenegro, which had inherited YU from Yugoslovia, had its code changed to CS (Crna Gora i Srbja), and then in 2006 Serbia and Montenegro split and received the codes RS and ME, respectively. Postal addresses that appear in printed matter, databases, and on the Web can be found in all three formats. CEN (see Links at the end of this section) recommends in Annex C of EN 14142-1:2003 (a standard for addresses) that cross-border mail should be prefixed by the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code where the postcode precedes the locality in the destination country. Thus, depending on whose guidelines you read, the CEPT country code should be used, or the ISO code should be used, or there should be no country code at all. For example, the local standard of Germany might say something like «Under no circumstances should a country code such as D or DE be prefixed to the postcode», but the standard in (say) Switzerland for sending mail to Germany might call for a D or DE prefix. In any case, the prefixes should do no harm except perhaps to cause the mail piece to be rejected by automatic sorters in the source country, the destination country, or both, in which case they are handled manually. As far as I can tell, the USPS doesn’t care about them. Here’s a summary table of European countries showing the USPS country name (see INDEX for local, long, and other forms), ISO 3166 Alpha-2 Code, United Nations Car Code, postcode format, and sample City line. The country-code prefix is omitted, as in the UPU examples, except where the UPU states explicitly that it should be used. In the postcode format, n indicates a digit and L indicates an uppercase letter; italic words like town and district are to be replaced actual town or district names. Non-italic letters, spaces, and hyphens are to be taken literally. Country names link to the country’s postal authority website, if known, or other relevant site. USPS Name ISO Car City Line Format City Line Example ALAND ISLAND (*) FI AX AX-nnnnn town AX-22111 MARIEHAMN ALBANIA AL AL nnnn town 1001-TIRANE ANDORRA AD AND ADnnn town AD500 ANDORRA LA VELLA AUSTRIA AT A nnnn town 1010 WIEN BELARUS BY BY See The Former Soviet Union BELGIUM BE B nnnn town 4000 LIEGE BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA BA BIH See The Former Yugoslavia BOSNIA / REPUBLIKA SRPSKA BA BIH See The Former Yugoslavia BULGARIA BG BG nnnn town 1000 SOFIA CROATIA HR HR See The Former Yugoslavia CYPRUS (*) CY CY nnnn town 1900 NICOSIA CZECH REPUBLIC CZ CZ See The Former Czechoslovakia DENMARK DK DK nnnn town 1566 COPENHAGEN V ESTONIA EE EST See The Former Soviet Union FAROE ISLANDS (*) FO FO nnn town 100 TÓRSHAVN FINLAND (*) FI FIN nnnnn town 00550 HELSINKI FRANCE (*) FR F nnnnn town 34092 MONTPELLIER GERMANY DE D nnnnn town 35035 MARBURG GREECE GR GR nnn nn town 101 88 ATHENS HUNGARY (*) HU H town street-address nnnn BUDAPEST Virág Tér 3. IV.61 1540 ICELAND IS IS nnn town 110 REYKJAVÍK ITALY IT I nnnnn town (LL) 00144 ROMA (RM) LATVIA (*) LV LV See The Former Soviet Union LIECHTENSTEIN (*) LI FL nnnn town 9486 SCHAANWALD LITHUANIA LT LT See The Former Soviet Union LUXEMBOURG LU L nnnn town 2998 LUXEMBOURG MALTA (*) MT M town LLL nnnn ZEJTUN ZTN 1000 MOLDOVA MD MD See The Former Soviet Union MONACO (*) MC MC nnnnn town 98000 MONACO MONTENEGRO (*) ME ?? See The Former Yugoslavia NETHERLANDS NL NL nnnn LL town 1098 SJ AMSTERDAM NORTH MACEDONIA (*) MK MK nnnn town 1000 SKOPJE NORWAY NO N nnnn town 0107 OSLO POLAND PL PL nn-nnn town 00-940 WARSZAWA PORTUGAL PT P nnnn-nnn town 1250-096 LISBOA ROMANIA RO RO nnnnnn town 050000 BUCARESTI RUSSIA RU RUS See The Former Soviet Union SAN MARINO SM RSM nnnnn town 47899 FIORINA SERBIA (*) RS ?? See The Former Yugoslavia SLOVAK REPUBLIC SK SK See The Former Czechoslovakia SLOVENIA (*) SI SLO See The Former Yugoslavia SPAIN (*) ES E nnnnn town 28070 MADRID SPITSBERGEN SJ Address through NORWAY SWEDEN SE S nnn nn town 105 00 STOCKHOLM SWITZERLAND CH CH nnnn town 8037 ZÜRICH UKRAINE UA UA town nnnnn KIEV 01055 VATICAN CITY (*) VA V nnnnn town 00120 CITTÀ DEL VATICANO When addressing mail to a European country, don’t write EUROPE under or next to the country name. ITALY Italy is divided into 20 Regioni (regions) listed in the following table, which shows the region name in Italian (and German or French where applicable), then in English (if different), then an unofficial abbreviation (from the Gwillim Law book) for the region name used in the subsequent provincia table (updated 13 March 2021 from Comuni e città.it): Abruzzo Abruzzi AB Barletta-Andria-Trani BT Basilicata BC Calabria CI Campania CM Carbonia-Iglesias CI Emilia-Romagna ER Friuli-Venezia Giulia FB Lazio LZ Liguria LG Lombardia Lombardy LM Marche MH Molise ML Piemonte Piedmont PM Puglia Apulia PU Sardegna Sardinia SD Sicilia Sicily SC Toscana Tuscany TC Trentino-Alto Adige / Trentino-Südtirol TT Umbria UM Valle d’Aosta / Vallée d’Aoste Valle d’Aosta VD Veneto VN The regione is not used in the postal address, but the provincia is included as the 2-letter abbreviation of the province’s capital. Thus in the following address: the town of Buccinasco is in the provincia of Milano; the regione of Lombardia is not included in the address. These acronyms are called sigle automobilistiche because, up to a few years ago, each province had its own registry of vehicles, and the car registration plates had this two-letter province abbreviation preceding the actual number. (This had the side effect that stranger cars could be immediately identified when traveling in other parts of Italy. As a consequence, Italian drivers always had to be very well informed about soccer matches, as it was not advisable to park a car with a Turin registration plate in Rome the day after Torino F.C defeated A.S. Roma. ) Guido Camilla adds, «By the way in the past was not advisable to park a car with a ‘Turin’ registration plate in Rome the day after Juventus F.C defeated A.S Roma. or was not advisable to park a car with a ‘Milano’ registration plate in Torino close to the stadium the day of Juventus-Milan or Juventus-Inter match.» Traditionally, the 2-letter provincia abbreviation was given in parentheses after the city, e.g.: Italian Post now recommends the parentheses be omitted for the sake of automatic scanning and sorting (but the parenthesized form is still widely used): Strictly speaking, the provincia abbreviation is redundant, since it is also embodied in the postal code, which has three fields: Here’s a table of province, in which the first column is the provincia name, second the provincia abbreviation, third the first two digits of the CAP, and fourth the regione abbreviation keyed to the previous table. Agrigento AG 92 SC Alessandria AL 15 PM Ancona AN 60 MH Aosta / Aoste AO 11 VD Arezzo AR 52 TC Ascoli Piceno AP 63 MH Asti AT 14 PM Avellino AV 83 CM Bari BA 70 PU Belluno BL 32 VN Benevento BN 82 CM Bergamo BG 24 LM Biella BI 13 PM Bologna BO 40 ER Bolzano / Bolzen BZ 39 TT Brescia BS 25 LM Brindisi BR 72 PU Cagliari CA 09 SD Caltanisetta CL 93 SC Campobasso CB 86 ML Caserta CE 81 CM Catania CT 95 SC Catanzaro CZ 88 CI Chieti CH 66 AB Como CO 22 LM Cosenza CS 87 CI Cremona CR 26 LM Crotone KR 88 CI Cuneo CN 12 PM Enna EN 94 SC Ferrara FE 44 ER Firenze FI 50 TC Foggia FG 71 PU Forlì FO 47 ER Frosinone FR 03 LZ Genova GE 16 LG Gorizia GO 34 FV Grosseto GR 58 TC Imperia IM 18 LG Isernia IS 86 ML L’Aquila AQ 67 AB La Spezia SP 19 LG Latina LT 04 LZ Lecce LE 73 PU Lecco LC 22 LM Livorno LI 57 TC Lodi LO 20 LM Lucca LU 55 TC Macerata MC 62 MH Mantova MN 46 LM Massa-Carrara MS 54 TC Matera MT 75 BC Messina ME 98 SC Milano MI 20 LM Modena MO 41 ER Napoli NA 80 CM Novara NO 28 PM Nuoro NU 08 SD Oristano OR 09 SD Padova PD 35 VN Palermo PA 90 SC Parma PR 43 ER Pavia PV 27 LM Perugia PG 06 UM Pesaro-Urbino PS 61 MH Pescara PE 65 AB Piacenza PC 29 ER Pisa PI 56 TC Pistoia PT 51 TC Pordenone PN 33 FB Potenza PZ 85 BC Prato PO 50 TC Ragusa RG 97 SC Ravenna RA 48 ER Reggio di Calabria RC 89 CI Reggio nell’Emilia RE 42 ER Rieti RI 02 LZ Rimini RN 47 ER Roma RM 00 LZ Rovigo RO 45 VN Salerno SA 84 CM Sassari SS 07 SD Savona SV 17 LG Siena SI 53 TC Siracusa SR 96 SC Sondrio SO 23 LM Taranto TA 74 PU Teramo TE 64 AB Terni TR 05 UM Torino TO 10 PM Trapani TP 91 SC Trento TN 38 TT Treviso TV 31 VN Trieste TS 34 FV Udine UD 33 FV Varese VA 21 LM Venezia VE 30 VN Verbania VB 28 PM Vercelli VC 13 PM Verona VR 37 VN Vibo Valentia VV 88 CI Vicenza VI 36 VN Viterbo VT 01 LZ Here is a UPU example of an Italian address, in which the CAP lacks a country prefix (as required for internal mail and perhaps for mail from certain countries but definitely not for others): By the way, Italy surrounds at least two other small countries: Vatican City and San Marino, which are properly treated by the USPS as separate countries – VATICAN CITY and SAN MARINO – and by some accounts also a third, the Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta, or Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), consisting of a single building on a Roman street, the Palace of Malta in the Via dei Condotti 68 (you’re probably better off using the Roman street address). NETHERLANDS In the NETHERLANDS, a 2-letter delivery code follows the numeric part of the postal code – this is not a state/province abbreviation, just an indication of a subzone within the area indicated by the number. The four-digit number never begins with 0; The subzone letters ‘F’, ‘I’, ‘O’, ‘Q’, ‘U’ and ‘Y’ were originally not used for technical reasons, but almost all existing combinations are now used as these letters were allowed for new locations starting 2005, except (because of their associations with the German occupation during World War II) the combinations SA, SD, and SS. The NL- prefix is not used within the Netherlands, but can be used for mail to the Netherlands. In the following, Postbus means PO Box. Don’t refer to the Netherlands as Holland. Holland is only one part of the Netherlands. The language spoken in the Netherlands is Nederlands, «Dutch» in English. This is commonly believed to result from English speakers not knowing the difference between the Netherlands and Germany, whose language is Deutsch, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary it comes from the Middle Dutch word «dutsch» that covered both German and Dutch*. The provinces of the Netherlands are generally not used in postal addresses, but in case it’s ever of any use, here is the list, also showing some well-known towns. There are no standard abbreviations, but this list follows the modern trend of keeping them all the same length: English Dutch Abbr Towns Drenthe Drenthe DR Flevoland Flevoland FL Friesland (Frisia) Friesland (Fryslân) FR Gelderland Gelderland GE Apeldoorn, Arnhem, Nijmegen Groningen Groningen GR Lemburg Limburg LI North Brabant Noord-Brabant NB Eindhoven, Breda North Holland Noord-Holland NH Amsterdam, Haarlem Overijssel Overijssel OV South Holland Zuid-Holland ZH Rotterdam, Leiden, Dordrecht, the Hague Utrecht Utrecht UT Utrecht Zeeland Zeeland ZE To address a specific person and or department within an organization, add it below the company name: Links (verified 9 Nov 2015): Netherlands Post http://www.postnl.nl/ Postcode lookup http://www.postnl.nl/zoeken/ GERMANY German postal codes are five digits, possibly prefixed by DE- (for Deutschland, formerly just D ). Prior to 1991 (the union of DDR and the Bundesrepublik), the prefixes for the 4-digit codes were D- (for the Federal Republic (West)), and DDR- (for the Democratic Republic (East)). Then, in the united Federal Republic, the prefixes were O- (for East) and W- (for West), to distinguish the conflicting 4-digit postcodes of East and West. Then on July 1, 1993, a new comprehensive Germany-wide 5-digit system took effect and all the German addresses in all the databases in the world had to be converted. The country prefix (D- or DE-) is not used for internal mail, and should no longer be used for mail to Germany either, at least not according to the UPU, which says In items for Germany, on no account should a country code (D- or DE-) be written in front of the postcode. This could cause delay in processing the items as they cannot be sorted by the sorting machines (boldface from the original). The exception would be when sending mail from a country that requires country prefixes on postcodes in mail bound for other European countries. (Confused? When sending mail from the USA to Germany, omit the prefix.) Alex Bochannek adds, As part of the 1993 PLZ [Postleitzahlen – Postal Codes] conversion, the trailing postal district number was dropped. For example, 1000 Berlin 20 covered part of the Berlin district of Spandau. After the 1993 conversion a finer granularity was possible and 13591 Berlin was assigned to an even smaller part of Spandau. Prior to conversion, trailing zeroes in the postal code were commonly omitted, so people would often write 1 Berlin 20 for 1000 Berlin 20. This was more obvious with large cities that had three zeroes, but even smaller cities with only one trailing zero could have that digit dropped. So you could say that while the postal code had four digits, they were written as one to four digits. The first German postal codes, which had two digits. were established in 1941, described here. Four-digit codes were introduced in West Germany between 1962 and 1964. East Germany followed suit soon thereafter, but did not use postal district numbers after the city name, but instead incorporated them into the postal code. Therefore, there was a 1000 Berlin in the west and 1xxx numbers for the eastern parts of Berlin. The postal district numbers (at least in the big cities that actually used them) had a certain sociopolitical connotation. In Berlin the famed (notorious?) district Kreuzberg used to also be known as SO36 (Süd-Ost [South East] 36) after their old postal district. I think the SO part actually predated the numbering and I suspect that it was probably used in parallel for a while, possibly to indicate mail distribution centers. But that is pretty much speculation on my part since I never actually saw the letter designation used on contemporary mail – only the digits. You can look up German postal codes here: or in Frank’s copy of the Deutsche Bundespost Postleitzahlenbuch ( onsite only 🙂 You can convert pre-1993 4-digit postalcodes to current 5-digit ones here: Also note the following transcription rules for German, to be used in cases where you can’t print the special German characters: German Transcription Example Vowel with Umlaut (ä ö ü) Same vowel followed by e (ae, oe, ue) Köln → Koeln German sharp s ess-zet (ß) Two s’s (ss) Straße (street) → Strasse Most street addresses have the street name first, then the house number. GmbH stands for Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (company with limited liability), a corporate status designation similar to English Ltd. It is capitalized as shown. About the hyphenation of German street names, Otto Stolz writes: In this example [i.e. the one above], the street name is a compound word, and the general rule is that a compound is either written in one single word, or else with hyphens between all of its (1st level) components, cf. http://www.ids-mannheim.de/service/reform/regeln2006.pdf, § 44 (p.45). Particularly, compounds starting with a proper name are always written with hyphens, cf. http://www.ids-mannheim.de/service/reform/regeln2006.pdf. (Unfortunately, the 2006 version of the official orthographic rules are in a monolithic PDF file without the possibility to link directly to the several sections.) Also from Otto Stolz: There are two more types of addresses you may wish to mention: Postfachadressen (PO Boxes): Großkundenadressen (Large Customers): Note that you must use the street address (with its particular post code) for parcels and for express delivery, e.g.: Christian Asche reports (in June 2017): In Mannheim, some addresses in the inner city are ”blocks”, instead of regular addresses. Example: German Transcription English Name German Name BRUNSWICK BRAUNSCHWEIG COLOGNE KÖLN HANOVER HANNOVER MUNICH MÜNCHEN NUREMBERG NÜRNBERG Example: Lehrstuhl für Datenverarbeitung Technische Universität München Arcisstraße 21 80290 München GERMANY What we know today as Germany has evolved over the last centuries from a collection of feuding duchies to a vast empire, and then to a medium-sized West European country; divided from 1945 to 1991, then unified. At its peak the German Empire encompassed most of notheastern Europe. Much of this territory was lost to Germany in World Wars I and II. Hence, many cities and towns once German are now Polish, Czech, Russian, and so on, and in most cases their names have changed from German. Pre-WWI or WWII addresses referring to German town names such as Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland), Danzig (now Gdańsk in Poland), Preßburg (now Bratislava in Slovakia), Budweis (now České Budějovice in the Czech Republic), Carlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic), Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia), etc, had to be be adjusted. In similar fashion some East German cities have been renamed (or un-renamed) since reunification, such as Karl-Marx-Stadt (back) to Chemnitz. For more maps of the shifting 20th-Century East European borders, see this page (thanks to Katarzyna Siwek for the reference). Name ISO 3166-2 PLZ Former Capital Some Other Cities Baden-Württemberg BW 68-69xxx, 7xxxx, 88-89xxx, 97xxx West Stuttgart Baden Baden, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Ludwigsburg, Mannheim, Tübingen, Ulm Bayern (Bavaria) BY 63xxx, 8xxxx, 90-96xxx West München (Munich) Augsburg, Nürnberg, Würzburg Berlin BE 10-14xxx East/West Berlin Brandenburg BR 01xxx, 03-04xxx, 14xxx, 15-19xxx East Potsdam Cottbus, Frankfurt/Oder Bremen HB 27xxx-28xxx West Bremen Hamburg HH 20xxx-22xxx, 27xxx West Hamburg Hessen (Hesse, Hessia) HE 6xxxx 60-61xxx, 63-65xxx, 68-69xxx West Wiesbaden Darmstadt, Frankfurt/Main, Fulda, Kassel Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) NI 2xxxx 19xxx, 21xxx, 26-31xxx, 34xxx, 37-38xxx, 48-49xxx West Hannover Braunschweig, Bremerhaven, Göttingen, Lüneburg, Osnabrück Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania) MV 18-19xxx 17-19xxx, 23xxx East Schwerin Rostock, Wismar Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia) NW 4xxxx, 5xxxx 32-34xxx, 37xxx, 40-53xxx, 57-59xxx West Düsseldorf Aachen, Bonn, Dortmund, Essen, Köln (Cologne), Münster, Wuppertal Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) RP 5xxxx, 67-68xxx 53-57xxx, 65-67xxx, 76xxx West Mainz Bad Dürkheim, Kaiserlautern, Koblenz, Ludwigshafen, Trier, Worms Saarland SL 66xxx West Saarbrücken Sachsen (Saxony) SN 0xxxx 01-02xxx, 04xxx, 07-09xxx East Dresden Chemnitz, Leipzig Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony Anhalt) ST 0xxxx 06xxx, 29xxx, 38-39xxx East Magdeburg Dessau, Halle Schleswig-Holstein SH 23-25xxx 21-25xxx, 27xxx West Kiel Lübeck Thüringen (Thuringia) TH 0xxxx 04xxx, 06-07xxx, 36-37xxx, 96xxx, 98-99xxx East Erfurt Eisenach, Jena In the postal oddities department, Ken Westmoreland reports on Germany’s enclave in Switzerland: «Mail can be sent via Germany to D-78266 Büsingen, or via Switzerland to CH-8238 Büsingen: Otto Stolz lists several other places that are part of two countries’ postcode systems (A for Austria, D for Germany): «Parcels may be addressed to the A code, while letters may addressed to either. These four places are not really exclaves, as they are connected to the Austrian mainland – though in pathless mountain regions, whilst the roads go in from Germany. Particularily funny is the border around Jungholz: Jungholz’s precincts are connected to the Austrian mainland in one single point, on top of the Sorgschrofen mountain.» FRANCE French addresses are straightforward. A typical example (from the UPU addressing formats guide) is: Lines from the street address down are supposed to be in all capital letters. The French also like to write surnames in all caps, as shown, and an address can include both a street name and number (56 RUE EMILE ZOLA) and a Post Office Box (BP 90432). The F- or FR- country code prefix is omitted from the postcode in this example, but is often seen in practice. The example also shows how the town or city name can be followed by the word CEDEX (Courrier d’Entreprise à Distribution EXceptionnelle), which indicates a special delivery service for business mail; if this word is included in an address (possibly followed by a zone number, as in the example), do not omit it; it’s part of the address. Conversely, don’t add CEDEX unless you know it’s part of the address. Receveur du bureau de poste de Saint-Pierre BP 4330, Place du Général de Gaulle F-97500 Saint Pierre SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON Quiz Question 1: What other parts of North America were controlled by Axis powers in World War II? Several other spots in the Western Hemisphere are also parts of France, and share the same postal codes. These include French Guiana in South America the islands Martinique and Guadaloupe. Each of these is treated by the USPS as a distinct country for addressing purposes. Ditto for French departments in the Pacific Ocean. THE FORMER CZECHOSLOVAKIA The Czech Republic officially changed its English name to CZECHIA in 2016, but the USPS International Mail Manual edition of March 5, 2018, still used the name CZECH REPUBLIC, so for the present, that is still how mail from the USA must be addressed. On New Years Day, 1993, Czechoslovakia (ISO 3166 Alpha-2 code CS) split into two countries: The Czech Republic (CZ, containing Prague, Brno, Plzn, etc), and the Slovak Republic (SK, containing Bratislava). The new postal codes are as follows: As you can see, the two countries share the same code space (i.e. their postcodes do not overlap). Prague and some of the other Czech and Slovak cities also put zone (district) numbers after the city name. Examples: Recent guidance says to omit the country prefix from the postcode, as in this example for Slovakia: Since the Czech name for Prague is Praha, you might want to use the double-city-line format when addressing mail there: Don’t use the old German names for Czech and Slovak cities (Preßburg, Carlsbad, Budweis, etc); see section on Germany. Czech Republic http://www.cpost.cz/ Slovak Republic http://www.slposta.sk/online/hlpsc.htm THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA Between 1990 and 2006, what had been the Federated (or Federal) Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia – a federation of six Republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia) and two Socialist Autonomous Regions (Kosovo and Vojvodina) – became the following countries (see INDEX for native-language, alternative, and former names). Prior to 1990, the ISO 3166-1 code for Yugoslavia was YU; after that each republic received its own code. From 1990 to 2006, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro were federated into a single country having code CS (which had formally belonged to Czechoslovakia); in 2006 they separated and received the codes shown below. As always, the spelling of country names for addressing purposes is the USPS spelling since, after all, it is the USPS that must recognize the country name. KOSOVO declared itself an independent republic on 17 February 2008. At first international mail service Kosovo under the administrative supervision of an interim United Nations (U.N.) mission and required special notations in the address, now it is a regular country with its own postal codes. Here’s the regular-format table for these counties: USPS Name ISO Car City Line Format City Line Example BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA BA BIH nnnnn town 71000 SARAJEVO CROATIA HR HR nnnnn town 10000 ZAGREB KOSOVO XK KS nnnnn town 10000 PRISTINA NORTH MACEDONIA MK MK nnnn town 1000 SKOPJE MONTENEGRO ME ?? nnnnn town 81000 PODGORICA SERBIA RS ?? nnnnnn town 106314 BEOGRAD SLOVENIA SI SLO SI-nnnn town SI-1001 LJUBLJANA Note: The status of Kosovo vis-a-vi Serbia is complicated and special license plates and car codes might be required when driving from Kosovo to Serbia; see this Wikipedia page. Slovenian Post requires the ISO Alpha-2 country code to be used on all items entering or leaving Slovenia. «Bosnia-Herzegovina» (Bosna-i-Hercegovina) sounds like two countries but really is one, with two main parts: a Serbian part (Republika Srpska, which has its own postal website HERE, and the Bosniak/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Federacija Bosna-i-Hercegovina); the latter also administers a separate district named Brcko in the northeast which is not part of Republika Srpska or the Bosniak/Croat Federation. (Note: Bosnian refers to nationality, Bosniak refers to the Bosnian-speaking population, as opposed to the Serbs and Croats). Bosnia-Herzegovina has 5-digit postal codes: From September 2006, the country code for Serbia, including the autonomous regions, is RS: On January 1, 2005, Serbian Post introduced a six-digit address code for each Serbian postal address, to replace the previous 5-digit postal code. The website shows the following sample address: in which the first line is the person’s name (Petar Petrovich), the second line is presumably the street and house number (Palmoticheva 027 008), the third line is the postcode and code (11000 Beograd = Belgrade; I’m not sure what the small notation is to the right of Београд), and the fourth line shows the new address code at the bottom right. The site is not clear about the relationship of the postcode and the address code (the example shows both the postcode and the address code in the same address, but the text says Instead of the existing postal code, a new address code is introduced ), but the Universal Postal Union writes the same address like this: The USPS, however, still lists the name of the country as SERBIA-MONTENEGRO (IMM Issue 34, May 14, 2007 Updated with Postal Bulletin Revisions Through February 28, 2008). Macedonia (Makedonia, Makedonija) was a controversial name, contested by Greece an the former Yugoslav repbublic. Effective 26 January 2020, USPS adopted the name (REPUBLIC OF) NORTH MACEDONIA (IMM Revision: Republic of North Macedonia Name Change). Also note the usage of the Cyrillic versus Latin alphabet. Croatian is always written with Latin letters (but see THIS); Serbian (spoken in Serbia, Montenegro, and part of Bosnia) can be written with Cyrillic or Latin (BELGRADE can be БЕОГРАД or BEOGRAD). Latin letters seem to be the rule in Bosnia and Kosovo but Cyrillic is also used; Cyrillic predominates in Macedonia. People of many nationalities besides Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, etc, live in these countries, including Hungarians, Romanians, Czechs, Slovaks, Albanians, Turks, and Gypsies. Reportedly, in Vojvodina the street signs used to be in six languages: Hungarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, and Serbian/Croatian. THE FORMER SOVIET UNION What was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) until 1992 now consists of the new (or old) countries shown in the table below. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, these countries have also been known – with decreasing frequency – as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The country names shown are the ones recognized by the USPS (highlighted names link to postal authorities, or at least they did at the time this section was last updated but web addresses tend to change out from under us). See INDEX for long, local, and other forms of each country name. The ISO and Car codes are explained in the Europe section. The postcode formats and city line examples come from the Universal Postal Union except where noted. The 1977 stamp shown at right (image from Wikipedia) promotes the use of the USSR’s newly-introduced postal codes. USPS Name ISO Car City Line Format City Line Example ARMENIA AM ARM nnnnnn town 375010 YEREVAN AZERBAIJAN AZ AZ nnnnnn town 370139 BAKU BELARUS BY BY nnnnnn town(-zone) 220050 MINSK-50 ESTONIA EE EST nnnnn town 10001 TALLINN GEORGIA GE GE nnnn town 0100 TBILISI KAZAKHSTAN KZ KZ town nnnnnn ALMATY 480012 KYRGYZSTAN KG KS nnnnnn town 720001 BISHKEK LATVIA LV LV town, LV-nnnn RIGA, LV-1073 LITHUANIA LT LT LT-nnnnn town LT-14269 Vilniaus r.sav. MOLDOVA MD MD nnnn town 2012 CHIŞINӐU RUSSIA RU RUS town nnnnnn MOSCOW 103375 TAJIKISTAN TJ TJ nnnnnn town 734025 DUSHANBE TURKMENISTAN TM TM nnnnnn town 744000 ASHKHABAD UKRAINE UA UA town nnnnn KIEV 01055 UZBEKISTAN UZ UZ nnnnnn town 700000 TASHKENT Lithuania switched from a 4-digit to a 5-digit zipcode about 2005, and now offers an English-language postal website, http://www.post.lt/en/, including postcode lookup. As you can see, the UPU says that Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Russia put the postal code on a line by itself under the city name. This is a rather new phenomenon, and it might be confusing for USPS postal sorters, which until about 2000 could always expect the name of the city to appear on the line just above the name of the country (the United Kingdom has adopted the same practice), and in any case does not seem to be the form used on most mail pieces. In the 20th Century, most of these countries wrote addresses backwards from how we write them, e.g. with country name on top, the city line as the second line («г.» stands for «город», meaning town or city), the street line next, and finally the company or person, and the postcode was on the right: This form fell into disuse about 2000, at least in Russia and Ukraine, which have switched to the same minor-to-major top-to-bottom presentation used in most other places, while other former Soviet republics such as Kyrgyzstan still use the major-to-minor form [more about Kyrgyzstan]. In any case, when addressing mail to these countries, write addresses in the normal USA order, because the USPS looks at the bottom of the address, not the top, for the City line and Country name, and of course write at least the City and Country lines in Roman letters. This form works best (the last two lines are, of course, omitted for mail within Russia): A transliterated version should work: And an English translation should work too, but might result in delayed delivery since it requires re-translation of the local parts: At present I do not know if translation or transliteration is more effective nor, if transliteration is preferred, which transliteration system is best. Where should the postcode go? The examples just above (postcode left of the city name, no prefix) seem to show the prevailaing usage (in 2004), despite the UPU recommends of putting it on a line by itself. All of the following formats have been seen (by me): Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet Republics have subdivisions called (in the nominative singular): Область (Oblast = Region), Автономная область (Avtonomnaya oblast = Autonomous region), Автономный округ (Avtonomnyj okrug = Autonomous province), Город (Gorod = City), Край (Kray = Territory), Місто (Ukrainian: Misto = Independent city), or Республика (Respublika = Republic). Latin Cyrillic A.P. Federenko P.O.Box 987 72319 Melitopol-19 Zaporozhskaya obl. UKRAINE А.П. Федеренко а/я 987 72319 Мелитополь-19 Запорожская обл. UKRAINE A.P. Federenko ul. Timoshenko, 26-17 04212 KIEV-212 UKRAINE А.П. Федеренко ул. Тимошенко, 26 кв. 17 04212 Киев-212 UKRAINE Latin Cyrillic Izdatelstvo Inostrannyi Yazik ul. Myasnitskaya, 10 str. 1 101000 MOSCOW RUSSIA Издательство Иностранный язык ул. Мясницкая, 10 стр. 101000 Москва MOSCOW RUSSIA Ivan Sidorov ul. Prorizna, 29 kv. 6 01001 KIEV-1 UKRAINE Иван Сидоров ул. Прорезная, 29 кв. 6 01001 Киев-1 KIEV UKRAINE When addressing in Cyrillic, you should include the city name in English (e.g. MOSCOW, KIEV). I do not know for a fact that mail pieces from America to (say) Russia are flown to any destination besides Moscow, but just now I noticed that the latest USPS Internation Mail Manual includes a large table, Areas Served Within Russia, listing hundreds of cities by postal code! (Follow the link and then scroll down.) Furthermore, the IMM states HERE that «Addresses in Russian, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Japanese, or Chinese characters must bear an interline translation in English of the names of the post office and country of destination. If the English translation is not known, the foreign language words must be spelled in roman characters (print or script).» The IMM, however, does not give any examples for Russia or other former Soviet republics, or define what it means by post office in the sentence just quoted (e.g. whether the oblast is included). Nor does it show how to write the interline translation; for example: Personally I suspect that «interline translation» is likely to confuse the postal scanners and sorters in the destination country (thanks to Bill Conerly for asking about this). Another piece of Russia, the villages of Sankova and Medvezhe, lies inside Belarus. Although the Cyrillic alphabet was used throughout most of the Soviet Union, some of the former Soviet republics are converting to Roman or Arabic script. Georgia and Armenia each have always had their own unique scripts. Of course Asia also includes much of the former Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Eastern Russia), but that has its own section. THE TWO CHINAS The 2017 USPS IMM lists only the short names, CHINA, TAIWAN, and FORMOSA (obsolete synonym for TAIWAN that should not be used since it is likely to offend). The USPS does not recognize PEOPLES REPUBLIC or REPUBLIC or P.R. as part of the country name. The Peoples Republic of China has provinces like Shanxi, and address are written as in the examples below, which I have seen on actual letters. The full form is town, province postcode, except for Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Chongqing, which do not fall under the jurisdiction of any province-level administrative region. Recent UPU addressing recommendations are vague about the Chinese province and other address parts (such a prefecture); certainly it should be included if the postal code is not known, and I’m sure it can’t hurt even when the postal code is included. In the absence of clear addressing guidelines, the more information the better. WUHAN, HUBEI Postal code unknown TAIYUAN, SHANXI (ditto) 310027 HANGZHOU, ZHEJIANG Full address line 100081 BEIJING Big city 200052 SHANGHAI (ditto) As in Japan (next section), Chinese addresses in Chinese are written major-to-minor, but for Roman transcription the USU gives the following example, which is not major-to-minor, but not exactly minor-to-major either: When I last looked (May 2012) the China Post website did not furnish any addressing guidelines. Taiwan does not appear in the USU listings, and Taiwan Post does not offer addressing advice. Addresses I have seen go like this: Note that there was a big spelling reform (for Romanization of Chinese names) in Peoples China in 1979, but not in Taiwan. Thus Peoples China uses Pinyin transcription, and the ROC uses Wade-Giles. Some examples: New (Pinyin) Old (Wade-Giles) Beijing Peking Sichuan Szechuan Mao Zedong Mao Tse Tung Yijing I-Ching Native (Han) scripts also differ; Peoples China uses a simplified form, Taiwan uses the traditional form. It should be noted that Chinese (Han) writing is mostly language-independent, and therefore can be used all over China, where dozens of languages are spoken (to name just a few: Buyei, Gan, Hakka, Jinyu, Guanhua (Mandarin), Min Nan, Xiang, Yue (Cantonese), Hmong, Yi, Zhuang, Korean, Mongolean, Tibetan). However, Romanized transcriptions are based on a particular language such as Mandarin, and therefore lack the same degree of universality. The Provinces and Autonomous Regions of Peoples China are listed in the following table, as they are used in addresses. Provinces are in regular type; autonomous regions are shown in italics. The Pinyin spelling is given on the left with the traditional English form on the right (often Wade-Giles, but not always). Use the Pinyin form. Pinyin Traditional Pinyin Traditional Anhui Anhwei Jilin Kirin Beijing Peking Liaoning Liaoning Fujian Fukien Nei Mongol Inner Mongolia Gansu Kansu Ningxia Hui Ningsia Hui Guangdong Kwantung Qinghai Tsinghai Guangxi Zhuang Kwangsi Chuang Shaanxi Shensi Guizhou Kweichow Shandong Shantung Hainan Hainan Shanghai Shanghai Hebei Hopeh Shanxi Shansi Heilongjiang Heilungkiang Sichuan Szechuan Henan Honan Tianjin Tientsin Hubei Hupei Xinjiang Uygur Sinkiang Uighur Hunan Hunan Xizang Tibet Jiangsu Kiansu Yunnan Yunnan Jiangxi Kiangsi Zhejiang Chekiang For postal purposes, Tibet (བོད) is a province of China called Xizang, but this is a touchy political issue. Hong Kong (Xianggang) became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the Peoples Republic of China July 1, 1997, but addressing conventions have not changed. Here’s a sample Hong Kong address: Hong Kong is still listed in the USPS IMM, and in fact (as of May 2004, and checked again in June 2009) Hong Kong Post still lists its own address as: Similarly for Macao (Macau, Aomen). According to the IMM, mail from the USA is still addressed to MACAO or MACAU. Although postcodes are not needed for Hong Kong and Macau, a single postcode has been assigned to each region to satisfy the growing requirement for postcodes: Hong Kong 999077 Macau 999078 JAPAN Mail to Japan can be addressed in Roman letters, with address lines written top to bottom in minor-to-major order. These mail pieces are sorted by hand upon arrival to Japan, where postal scanners handle only Kanji and Kana addresses written in major-to-minor order. A typical romanized address looks like this: Mr. Taro Tanaka Person’s name Fujitsu Limited Company name Optical Network Systems Development Department 4-1-1 Kamikodanaka Street Nakahara-ku «ku» = Ward Kawasaki-shi «shi» = City Kanagawa-ken «ken» = Prefecture 211-8588 Postal code JAPAN Country But the USPS does not want postal codes on the country line, so instead we pretend that Singapore is the city name as well as the country name: Singapore postal codes were changed from 4 to 6 digits in 1995. All the street signs also had to be changed, since they had 4-digit postcodes on them. Under the new system, each building in Singapore has its own unique postcode. INDIA India Post recommends using BLOCK CAPITAL letters for the postal town. The state names are not used. According to Yateendra Joshi of New Delhi, «State names are totally redundant and are not required in the address at all. The post code and the delivery post office go together, as in Hyderabad 500 032 or Bangalore 560 012. Nothing but a space, ideally a dash, should come between the two. If you need to specify the state, it should come after the postal code, as in Hyderabad 500 032 Andhra Pradesh (or AP).» This was explained in more detail at the Maharashtra Postal Circle site, which shows contradictory examples such as these: Of course when addressing mail to India from the USA, write INDIA as the final line. For the record, India has the following states (postal abbreviation shown): AP Andhra Pradesh AR Arunachal Pradesh AS Assam BR Bihar CG Chhattisgarh GOA or GA Goa GUJ or GJ Gujarat HP Himachal Pradesh HR Haryana JK Jammu and Kashmir ?? Jharkhand KRN or KA Karnataka KER or KL Kerala MP Madhya Pradesh MAH or MH Maharashtra MNP or MN Manipur MEG or ML Meghalaya MIZ or MZ Mizoram NLD Nagaland OR Orissa (now also called Odisha) PU or PB Punjab RAJ or RJ Rajasthan SKM or SK Sikkim TN Tamil Nadu TRP or TR Tripura UP Uttar Pradesh UA or UK Uttaranchal (now also called Uttarakhand) WB West Bengal Plus the following union territories: AN Andaman and Nicobar Islands CHD or CG Chandigarh DNH or DN Dadra and Nagar Haveli DD Daman and Diu DEL or DL Delhi LKP or LD Lakshadweep PDY or PY Pondicherry THE MIDDLE EAST Here is a table of countries in the geographic Middle East (the Arabian Peninsula east of the Bosporus, south of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan (which are listed in the Former USSR section), plus Iran, but not including Egypt, which is listed in the Africa section because most of it is on the African continent), showing the USPS name for each country, the ISO and Car codes (as in the table for Europe), the City Line format (L stands for an uppercase letter, n stands for a numeric digit, italic words such as town are to be replaced appropriately, and punctuation and non-italic characters are literal), and a sample City Line taken, in most cases, from the Universal Postal Union. For long and other forms of the country names, see the Index. Links from country names are to postal authorities, if known, otherwise to other postal information pages for the country. USPS Name ISO Car City Line Format City Line Example BAHRAIN (*) BH BRN nnn town 317 AL-MANAMAH IRAN (*) IR IR town nnnnn nnnnn TEHRAN 12345 67890 IRAQ IQ IRQ town BAGHDAD ISRAEL (*) IL IL nnnnnnn town 61002 TEL-AVIV JORDAN JO HKJ town nnnnn AMMAN 11937 KUWAIT KW KWT nnnnn town 54551 KUWAIT LEBANON (*) LB RL town nnnn nnnn RIAS EL SOLH BEIRUT 1107 2810 OMAN OM -- nnn town 133 MUSCAT PALESTINIAN TERRITORY (*) PS -- town GAZA CITY QATAR QA QA town DOHA SAUDI ARABIA SA SA town nnnnn RIYADH 11187 SYRIA (*) SY SYR nnnn town 0100 DAMASCUS TURKEY (*) TR TR nnnnn town 06101 ANKARA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (*) AE UAE box emirate P.O. BOX 111 DUBAI YEMEN YE YEM town SANA’A Another possibility is to put ISRAEL at the bottom of the address: Or perhaps without PALESTINIAN TERRITORY: The same three possibilities exist in both of these cases. I would suggest that someone in the USA who has contacts in the West Bank and/or Gaza try sending mail using these address formats and see what happens; report back to me, and I will update this material. AFRICA A table of countries of continental Africa and nearby island nations follows, showing the USPS name for each country, the ISO and Car codes (as in the table for Europe; these codes do not seem to be used in African postal addresses), the City Line format (L stands for an uppercase letter, n stands for a numeric digit, italic words such as town are to be replaced appropriately, and punctuation and non-italic characters are literal), and a sample City Line taken, in most cases, from the Universal Postal Union. For long and other forms of the country names, see the Index. Links from country names are to postal authorities, if known. USPS Name ISO Car City Line Format City Line Example ALGERIA DZ DZ nnnnn town 16027 ALGIERS ANGOLA AO -- town LUANDA BENIN BJ DY nn BP nnnn town 03 BP 1000 COTONOU BOTSWANA BW RB town GABORONE BURKINA FASO BF -- town nn OUAGADOUGOU 01 BURUNDI BI RU town BUJUMBURA CAMEROON CM CAM town YAOUNDE CAPE VERDE CV -- nnnn town island 7600 PRAIA SANTIAGO CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CF RCA town BANGUI CHAD TD TCH town NDJAMENA COMOROS KM -- town MORONI DJIBOUTI DJ -- town DJIBOUTI CÔTE D'IVOIRE (*) CI CI BP nn.. town zone BP 37 ABIDJAN 06 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO CD RCB town zone KINSHASA 1 EGYPT EG ET town nnnnn CAIRO 11511 EQUATORIAL GUINEA GQ -- town MALABO ERITREA ER -- town ASMARA ETHIOPIA ET ETH nnnn town 1000 ADDIS ABABA GABON GA GA nn town zone 05 TCHIBANGA 01 GAMBIA GM WAG town BANJUL GHANA GH GH town ACCRA GUINEA GN RG town CONAKRY GUINEA-BISSAU GW -- nnnn town 1011 BISSAU KENYA KE EAK town nnnnn NAIROBI 00100 LESOTHO LS LS town nnn MASERU 100 LIBERIA LR LB nnnn town zone 1000 MONROVIA 10 LIBYA LY LAR town TRIPOLI MADAGASCAR MG RM nnn town 101 ANTANANARIVO MALAWI MW MW town BLANTYRE MALI ML RMM town BAMAKO MAURITANIA MR RIM town NOUAKCHOTT MAURITIUS MU MS town nnnnn 73120 Henrietta MAYOTTE YT -- nnnnn town 97610 DZAOUDZI MOROCCO MA MA nnnnn town 20050 CASABLANCA MOZAMBIQUE MZ MOC nnnnn town 00300 MAPUTO NAMIBIA NA NAM town nnnnn SWAKOPMUND 13001 NIGER NE RN nnnn town 8001 NIAMEY NIGERIA NG WAN town nnnnnn ABUJA 900001 REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO CG -- town BRAZZAVILLE REUNION (*) RE -- nnnnn town 97410 SAINT PIERRE RWANDA RW RWA town KIGALI SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE ST -- town RIBEIRA AFONSO SENEGAL SN SN town 12524 DAKAR SEYCHELLES SC SY town MAHE SIERRA LEONE SL WAL town FREETOWN SOMALIA SO SO town MOGADISHU SOUTH AFRICA ZA ZA town nnnn CAPE TOWN 7945 SOUTH SUDAN* SS SSD town JUBA SUDAN SD SUD nnnnn town 11111 KHARTOUM SWAZILAND SZ -- town Lnnn MBABANE H100 TANZANIA TZ EAT town DAR ES SALAAM TOGO TG TG town LOME TUNISIA TN TN nnnn town 1030 TUNIS UGANDA UG EAU town KAMPALA WESTERN SAHARA EH -- (Address through Morocco) ZAMBIA ZM RNR nnnnn town 10101 LUSAKA ZIMBABWE ZW ZW town HARARE Do not write AFRICA next to or under the country name. According to the Universal Postal Union, the following African countries write the postal code on a line by itself: BENIN, CAPE VERDE, EGYPT, KENYA, MAURITIUS, SOUTH AFRICA, SUDAN, and SWAZILAND, as shown in the table. This is OK with the USPS, but in case it conflicts with your record-keeping or database requirements, it is probably OK to include the postal code in the City Line. Dr E.W. Lisse PO Box 1684 Swakopmund NAMIBIA Dr E.W. Lisse Oshakati State Hospital Private Bag X5501 Oshakati NAMIBIA NOTE: Postcodes were instituted after these examples were given. The 5-digit postcode goes on a line by itself between the town name and the country name. Quiz Question 2: If a person from Nigeria is a Nigerian, then what is someone from Niger? ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC The following table shows localities in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that are listed in the USPS International Mail Manual as primary destinations. Those which lack an ISO code are not listed in ISO 3166, and therefore are not countries by the ISO’s definition, but some that have codes (e.g. French Polynesia, New Caledonia) are not countries either, but parts or dependencies of other countries such as France. See INDEX for full and other country names. Not listed are the following United States territories and possessions, which are addressed as if they were states of the USA: Baker Island, Eastern Island, Guam, Howland Island, Koror, Manua Islands, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Midway, Navassa Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Pago Pago, Palau, Saipan, and Tinian. USPS Name ISO Car City Line Format City Line Example ASCENSION -- -- town uk-postcode GEORGETOWN ASCN 1ZZ AZORES -- -- nnnn-nnn town CANARY ISLANDS -- -- FIJI FJ FJI town SUVA FRENCH POLYNESIA PF -- KIRIBATI KI -- town, island BAIRIKI, TARAWA NAURU NR -- district DISTRICT YAREN DISTRICT NEW CALEDONIA NC -- nnnnn town 98841 NOUMEA CEDEX PAPUA NEW GUINEA PG PNG town nnn province BOROKO 111 NCD PITCAIRN ISLAND PN -- post-office-box P.O. BOX N SAINT HELENA -- -- town JAMESTOWN STHL 1ZZ SOLOMON ISLANDS SB -- town HONIARA SOUTH GEORGIA GS -- town GRYTVIKEN SIQQ 1ZZ TONGA TO -- town NUKU’ALOFA TRISTAN DA CUNHA -- -- town uk-postcode EDINBURGH TDCU 1ZZ TUVALU TV -- town FUNAFUTI VANUATU VU -- town PORT VILA WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS WF -- nnnnn town 98600 UVEA WESTERN SAMOA WS WS town APIA Don’t write SOUTH PACIFIC, SOUTH ATLANTIC, or any similar hints under the country name (despite advice to the contrary from addressees in those localities). The Pacific islands are sometimes assigned to three groups: MELANESIA (Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji), MICRONESIA (the Federated States of Micronesia – Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk and Yap – plus Guam, Palau, Saipan, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati), and POLYNESIA (Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, Hawaiʻi, Cook Islands, etc, and by some accounts New Zealand). The three groups together are known as OCEANIA. These classifications have nothing to do with postal addressing and should not be used in postal addresses. New Caledonia and Tahiti are Overseas Territories of France, not Overseas Departments, and are slightly more autonomous. Hence the fact that they have their own postal administrations from La Poste, and issue their own stamps – French postcodes are comparatively recent introductions. They even have their own currency, the French Pacific Franc. BRITAIN AND IRELAND Where to find the most confusing addresses on earth. What should be the name of this section? THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND (as it was once labeled), while technically correct if IRELAND is taken as the name of the country and not the island, can easily be misconstrued. THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND would not be correct since there is no country whose name is REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ÉIRE is correct (two non-overlapping countries) but it contains a mixture of languages. Hence BRITAIN AND IRELAND (two non-overlapping islands) – perhaps not quite adequate either since it might not encompass the various associated outlying islands. Let’s begin by reviewing the terminology: Here’s a summary table for the Islands of Britain and Ireland, the Crown Dependencies, and the British Overseas Territories. The notation and formats used are the very latest recommended by Royal Mail (except Ireland, which has nothing to do with Royal Mail). As always, links are to the appropriate postal authorities. British Antarctic Territory is not included because «you can’t get there from here» (the USPS does not recognize it as a destination). Similarly for the British Indian Ocean Territory (Diego Garcia, etc), Akrotiri and Dhekelia (on Cyprus), etc, which are SBAs (Sovereign Base Areas) under British military jurisdiction, so use BFPO numbers. Akrotiri is BFPO 57 and Dhekelia BFPO 58. BFPO has assigned a number of 485 to Diego Garcia as a part of a numbering system for Royal Navy ships; the «ship» is Naval Party (NP) 1002. NP 1002 is not an actual vessel, but the the name for the group of Royal Navy and Royal Marines who run the civilian government on Diego Garcia. They are headed by a Royal Navy officer who represents Britain on the island. The US Navy describes the situation better here. The BFPO number is here. USPS Name ISO Car City Line Format City and Country Line Example ALDERNEY GB GBA island ALDERNEY GY9 3UX CHANNEL ISLANDS ANGUILLA AI -- town THE VALLEY ANGUILLA ASCENSION ?? -- town TWO BOATS VILLAGE ASCN 1ZZ ASCENSION BERMUDA BM -- town LL nn Hamilton HM 12 BERMUDA BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS VG -- town, island Road Town, Tortola, VG1110 BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS CAYMAN ISLANDS KY -- po-box island KYn-nnnn P.O. Box 123 SAV Grand Cayman KY1-1010 CAYMAN ISLANDS ENGLAND GB GB town MANCHESTER M8 8LG ENGLAND FALKLAND ISLANDS (Las Malvinas, also claimed by Argentina) FK -- town PORT HOWARD FIQQ 1ZZ FALKLAND ISLANDS GIBRALTAR GI GBZ town IRISH TOWN GX11 1AA GIBRALTAR GUERNSEY GB GBG town island ST. PETER PORT GUERNSEY GY1 1FD CHANNEL ISLANDS ISLE OF MAN GB GBM town DOUGLAS IM99 1PB ISLE OF MAN IRELAND IE IRL town, Co. county BALLINROAMIN, THURLES CO. TIPPERARY A65 TF12 IRELAND JERSEY GB GBJ town island ST. HELIER JERSEY JE4 8NF CHANNEL ISLANDS MONTSERRAT MS -- town OLD TOWNE MONTSERRAT NORTHERN IRELAND GB GB town BELFAST BT6 9HQ NORTHERN IRELAND PITCAIRN ISLAND PN -- post-office-box P.O. BOX N PITCAIRN ISLAND SARK GB GBG island SARK GY9 OSF CHANNEL ISLANDS SCOTLAND GB GB town GLASGOW G21 2LH SCOTLAND SAINT HELENA SH -- town JAMESTOWN STHL 1ZZ SAINT HELENA SOUTH GEORGIA GS -- town GRYTVIKEN SIQQ 1ZZ SOUTH GEORGIA TRISTAN DA CUNHA -- -- town uk-postcode EDINBURGH TDCU 1ZZ TRISTAN DA CUNHA TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS TC -- town Providenciales TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS WALES GB GB town CARDIFF CF23 6DS WALES Mail to England proper, by the definition above, is sent to ENGLAND. Traditional English addresses tend to have lots of parts that we are not used to seeing, like: Eden Cottage (Name of House) is in May’s Green, which is a Hamlet (or in Royal Mail terminology, a Double Dependent Locality Name: a collection of 5-20 houses) in the Village of Harpsden, which is served by the Postal Town, Henley, which is on the river Thames, in the County of Oxfordshire (CLICK HERE for a table of counties, and to find out why Oxon is an abbreviation for Oxfordshire) and the Post Code is RG9 4AJ. The postal town should be written in uppercase and, as noted above, current practice seems to favor omitting the county, since counties are a moving target anyway. (It’s difficult for Americans to comprehend the constant reshuffling of British counties, given the immutability of our own states, not to mention the fanatical cultural nationalism surrounding statehood 🙂 (Apparently, it is also difficult for some Britons.) Recently Royal Mail (the British postal service) has been updating its addressing standards and recommendations. The Royal Mail website includes an Address Management page (referenced below) that summarizes the new format. Since it is a web page, it is likely to disappear at any moment, so I’ve taken the liberty of reproducing its summary table, titled What Is a Correct Postal Address? : Information Required? Example Name of addressee (Title, initials, surname) As applicable Mr. A. Smith Company/organization As applicable Acme Plc Building name Yes (except if it has a number) Acme House Number of building and name of street or road Yes 3 High Street Additional locality information Yes (only where similar road name exists within a post town area) Hedle end Post town (capital letters) Yes SOUTHAMPTON County A County address isn’t required, provided the post town and postcode are included. Hampshire Postcode (capital letters) Yes SO32 4NG Thus the example address given previously would now be written like this: …except that…. for our purposes (sending mail from the USA to these other places), we have to follow the guidelines of our own postal system, the USPS, which, as noted at the beginning of this document, prefers to have the City Line immediately preceding the country line: This can be seen in Issue 37, June 2010 (the current issue when this sentence was last edited) of the International Mail Manaual, Section 122, which shows this example: (Recall that USPS treats ENGLAND, GREAT BRITAIN, and UNITED KINGDOM as synonyms.) A source at Royal Mail comments as follows: «Your ‘what is a correct postal address?’ is a good find. In fact, I could be pedantic and point out that it’s possible to have two levels of street information, and two levels of additional locality information. It’s even possible to have two levels of building name, but that’s rare indeed! All this might amount to information overload, but if you want the definitive list of bits that make up an address as far as Royal Mail is concerned, it goes: Item Remarks Name details In fact Royal Mail takes no interest in the name and keeps no record on its address database Organisation Name Department Name Name of Building Possibly two lines thereof Building Number and name of street or road There can be two street names, one so-called ‘secondary thoroughfare’ which, if present, comes first) Additional locality names (possibly two thereof, each on its own line) Post Town ALL UPPERCASE County Royal Mail doesn’t recommend the use of county, and in addresses from Royal Mail including the database extracts we sell it is never used. Postcode ALL UPPERCASE Country ALL UPPERCASE «There is also a different format of address when there is a PO Box. In such cases it is: Item Remarks Name details Organisation Name Department Name PO Box nnnnnn Post Town ALL UPPERCASE Postcode ALL UPPERCASE Country ALL UPPERCASE Royal Mail’s recommendation to omit the county from the address is not without controversy; some Britons prefer to keep it, and in fact insist on doing so. The UK postcode system is shared by England, Scotland, Wales, the Crown Dependencies, and certain of the Overseas Territories. UK postcodes follow these patterns (A = Alphabetic Letter, N = Numeric Digit): Note that all start with a letter, have at least one digit in the first part, and all end with a space and then NAA. These are the rules, and the following are the exceptions that prove them: GIR 0AA Postcode for a national bank conceived in the 1960s/1970s called GiroBank. SAN TA1 Postcode for Father Christmas at Reindeerland. ASCN 1ZZ Ascension Island BIQQ 1ZZ British Antarctic Territory FIQQ 1ZZ Falkland Islands. STHL 1ZZ Saint Helena. SIQQ 1ZZ South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Here are some sample city lines using traditional English addressing (i.e. before about 2001, when counties were included in the address): These are now rendered with the postal town in uppercase, the county omitted, and the postcode on its own line: Here is your secret decoder ring for UK postal codes, courtesy of George D (which by now might be slightly obsolete). Greg Boettcher offers a list of initial letter(s) of British postal codes in CSV format, which in all but 7 cases pinpoint the postal district. In the exceptional cases postal districts straddle the England/Wales or England/Scotland boundary; for these you have to consult the more detailed information at the end of the table. The fields are: British postal code, Main sorting office, Region. The table (version of 9 April 2003) is HERE. Mark Brader adds, There are 8 of these, but not the eight 45-degree points. S and NE are not used (and those codes were given to Sheffield and Newcastle instead); EC and WC (east/west central) are used. Mark Brader observes that the system has been extended twice – from the original NW to NW1 in the first half of the 20th century, then to NW1 1AB in the second half as your other submitters have mentioned. Some of the street signs with ‘NW1’ would date from before there were postal codes. Ben Watson continues, “As an aside, the numbering of districts within a postal area (at least in London) looks illogical, as NW1 may not be adjacent to NW2. However, there some sort of logic behind it! The district of the main office in an area is always 1, then the rest of the numbers were assigned sequentially to an alphabetically ordered list of the rest of the districts in the area..” Related to this, another assumption of mine is that the reason the UK national postcode system is somewhat weird is that when they introduced postcodes across the country in the sixties, they basically adopted the London system as-is (or as-was) and expanded it across rest of the country. Which is confirmed by Hugh Dunne: When British postal codes were first introduced, they only covered London and were of the form W1, SE9, etc – but this was in the 1800s. Thus ‘London W1’, although seen in literature, is archaic and should not be encountered in modern addresses. Mark Brader states, however, that This is wrong. There were no numbers back then. The term for notations like ‘London NW1’ and ‘New York 22’, where the coded part is meaningful only with respect to the particular city, is ‘postal zone’, not ‘postal code’. In some places when postal codes were introduced they were designed to incorporate the existing postal zones, such as London. I believe some other UK cities had numbered postal zones and these became the numerical part of the postal code, e.g. Birmingham 2 would now have B2 as the first part of all its codes, but this is partly only my conjecture [Ken Westmoreland says this is correct: Interestingly, in UK phone directories for Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast, it is common to see the old zones used in addresses- previously they did have the full postcode; hence St Mary’s University College in Belfast would be listed as 191 Falls Road, 12, not BT12 6FE. ]. Similarly, I believe New York 22, N.Y. became NEW YORK NY 10022 [true but only for Manhattan]; I don’t know about other US cities with postal zones. In Canada, all postal zones were obsoleted when postal codes came into use. The British armed forces have their own mail delivery system and addressing conventions (British Forces Post Office), just as the US armed forces do (APO, FPO). See the links below. Bernard Treves Brown adds (in April 2003) that “You might care to note that the post office has invented ‘Virtual Post Towns’; thus my address is: “I use the old style, including the county, since HIGH PEAK will not appear on any list of towns, and you would need a detailed atlas to find Whaley Bridge. The postcode indicates that mail is delivered via Stockport, and indeed up to 6 years ago the HIGH PEAK line replaced STOCKPORT in the address. Since Stockport is some 17 miles away (different county &c.&c.) this regularly caused confusion. In HIGH PEAK we now use the name of an area, not the name of a large settlement. I say ‘an area’ because to everyone except the post office HIGH PEAK includes a number of large towns like Buxton and Glossop which are their own post towns.” Links Site Login Required Verified Royal Mail No Postcode Lookup * Royal Mail A to Z No British Forces Post Office. No Street Maps No According to Finlay Smith, Scottish postal codes are based on postal towns: EH (Edinburgh) G (Glasgow) IV (Inverness) AB (Aberdeen) PH (Perth) PA (Paisley) KW (Kirkwall) DG (Dumfries) TD (Tweeddale) FK (Falkirk) and HS (Harris), which cover the whole of Scotland except a small part near the border which has a CA (Carlisle) postcode which annoys the locals (especially when they shut the local sorting office and their mail started to be franked with a Carlisle frank). These regions can cover vast areas and are not necessarily close to the named town. (Scotland also includes the Outer Hebrides, which also have UK postal codes.) Ken Westmoreland adds, Berwick-upon-Tweed in England is covered by the Scottish postcode area TD, much to the annoyance of locals there. Although Scotland and Wales have counties just like England does (e.g. Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian, etc, in Scotland), we don’t necessarily write them. They are not essential for addressing, and in Scotland especially, using a county name might do more harm than good, since there are old and new county names and boundaries and much confusion about which town is in which county. From Chris Cooke in Scotland: Quiz Question 4: Who is the queen of Scotland? THE CROWN DEPENDENCIES These include the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey, where the cows come from, Sark and Alderney). None of these are part of the UK, but all of them are British Islands (strictly defined). According to IMM, the country names are CHANNEL ISLANDS and ISLE OF MAN. Ken Westmoreland reports: The Channel Islands and Isle of Man didn’t have their own postal administrations until the late 1960s, when the UK let them set up their own ones. Previously they were covered by the UK’s GPO, just as Puerto Rico, USVI, etc, are still covered by the USPS. Guernsey now has blue pillar boxes, the only British territory I know that does. Hence they didn’t become part of the UK postcode system until the early 1990s. Channel Islands and Isle of Man postcodes begin as follows: JE Jersey GY Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark IM Isle of Man Here is a sample Isle of Man address: and a sample Channel Islands address – note in this case both the town and the island must be included: More on the Isle of Man from Michael T Farnsworth (who lives there): We do indeed tend to refer to the Isle of Man as being within the British Isles. Although unfortunately in these days of internet ordering and fill in boxes I find myself needing to go with an address like: 16 Woodbourne Sq Address DOUGLAS City IM1 4DB Postal Code ISLE OF MAN USPS Country Name The other difficulty is that with the Isle of Man administrating its own postcodes they aren’t sold as part of the default database and some UK websites refuse to recognise them as valid as a result. Jersey Government http://www.gov.je Jersey Post http://www.jerseypost.com/home.html Guernsey Government http://www.gov.gg Guernsey Tourist Board http://www.guernseytouristboard.com/ Guernsey Post http://www.guernseypost.com/ Isle of Man Government http://www.gov.im Isle of Man Post http://www.iompostoffice.com/ Isle of Man Guide http://www.iomguide.com/ Isle of Man Tourism http://www.isle-of-man.com/ Residents of the Falkland Islands now have a postcode similar in format to those used in the UK. The new postcode is expected to help reduce delays in the direction of mail to the Islands. (Islanders have also found that many shopping websites refuse orders without a postcode.) Falkland Islands inhabitants often find that their letters have transited the postal systems of places such as the Faroe Islands, Iceland or the most popular destination for lost Falklands mail, Falkirk in Scotland. The postcode should also make on-line shopping easier for Falklands residents, given that most Internet-purchasing services require a post or zip code before transactions can be completed. Postcodes are simultaneously being introduced today for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and British Antarctic Territory. Other UK Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic, namely Saint Helena and Ascension Island, have had postcodes since March 2002. The project was created with the help of the International Division of Royal Mail and the Universal Postal Union in Berne, Switzerland. The following territories or dependencies have postcodes as of 2010: Anguila AL-2640 Ascension Island ASCN 1ZZ British Indian Ocean Territory BBND 1ZZ British Antarctic Territory BIQQ 1ZZ Falkland Islands FIQQ 1ZZ Pitcairn Islands PCRN 1ZZ South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands SIQQ 1ZZ Saint Helena STHL 1ZZ Tristan da Cunha TDCU 1ZZ Turks and Caicos Islands TKCA 1ZZ With postcode Without postcode Gibraltar The ‘Suite’ is actually a Private Mail Box (PMB), but the local post office does not deliver mail directly to PMB addresses, meaning that the PMB number is often called a Suite number. To confuse matters further, the PO Boxes and Private Mail Boxes are just next door to one another on Irish Town. People say that postcodes and automated sorting aren’t needed in a place only 2.5 square miles, but local mail in Gibraltar can often take several days to be sorted and delivered. Reportedly the Gibraltar Government is considering options to introduce a postcode system; see this discussion. In February 2010 a reader offered the following clarification: The ‘City Line Format’ should be blank in the case of Gibraltar. At just 3.5 square miles, Gibraltar is considered to be a single city [Although district/suburb names are sometimes (optionally) given, see below if interested.] Now, given the example you have on the page, it is easy to see how the mistake migth have happened – ‘Irish Town’ is actually the name of a street in Gibraltar, not a town! You do get addresses that are longer, but they are not towns in the postal sense. All falls within the street address strictly speaking, or is optional and unnecessary. Next you get developments and urbanisations. E.g. ’23 Britannia House, Marina Bay, Gibraltar’ where the Marina Bay is the name of a development to avoid confusion with other buildings with the same name elsewhere (which there are). However, in such addresses the development name forms part of the street element, although would generally be given on the next line. Next you get districts and suburbs, etc: Again, these however are only used for descriptive clarity and have no official definition, etc. And although given after the street address, they are not required. While convention is that examples such as ‘Upper Rock’ or ‘South District’ are less rarely given, others such as ‘Europa Point’ or ‘Catalan Bay’ are generally deemed as always part of the address. Indeed ‘Europa Point’ and ‘Catalan Bay Village’ are the closest things to towns in Gibraltar, as they are geographically distinct from the rest. They are given for geographical placing only, and are not postally towns. So should be viewed as a third line of street address. Note: Some websites will erroneously say the capital of Gibraltar is ‘Gibraltar town’ or ‘Gibraltar city’ etc. But the whole of Gibraltar is Gibraltar and that always means the whole place. While there is a city centre, and slight geographical separation of Europa Point and Catalan Bay from the rest, they are still inside ‘Gibraltar’ (which is always the name of the country). On international order forms we often have to write Gibraltar many times, but it is the country we are repeating upwards, not some fictional main town called Gibraltar city: Street: 26 Main Street, Town: Gibraltar, (in reality, name of country) State: Gibraltar, (in reality, name of country) PostCode: Gibraltar Country: Gibraltar. Indeed, even PO Boxes are numbered continuously in Gibraltar. So, PO Box 166, Gibraltar is a perfectly valid international address. If optionally given along with a street address, a PO Box number would go after all parts of the address before the country (because it is the street address of the user of the postbox, not the PO Box itself. So, if you were optionally including a geographical area you might have 5 Example street, Catalan Bay Village, PO Box 789, Gibraltar. More on Gibralter and other British Overseas Territories The Post Office in Gibraltar first proposed the introduction of postcodes in November 2004, which was nearly fifteen years ago, the same length of time it took to cover the whole of the UK. By contrast, Canada took only three! Another British Overseas Territory, Montserrat, introduced a postcode system in 2014, despite having only 5000 people, and only covering the northern part of the island, as the central and southern part are still in the exclusion zone, a legacy of the volcanic eruption in 1995. It has some splendid place names, meaning that you can ask the question ‘what’s the postcode for Gerald’s Bottom?’ MSR1230, in case you were wondering, as it is for Dick Hill. Falkland Islands and Other Territories Note that South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is called simply SOUTH GEORGIA by the USPS (and apparently is treated as a synonym for Falklands, which is some 1300km distant). The USPS does not recognize the British Antarctic Territory as a destination at all. The UK also has British Forces Post Office (BFPO) numbers. Gibraltar is BFPO 52, used when addressing armed forces personnel. Quiz Question 5: Which countries have a picture of the Queen on their money? NORTHERN IRELAND Like England, Scotland, and Wales, Northern Ireland is a country of the UK that uses UK postal codes. Northern Ireland has six counties. County names can be included, as in the country of Ireland (next section), in which case the word County (abbreviated Co. ) appears before the county name in the address. The county name is optional, however; usually just the postal town and postal code are sufficient, provided the postal code is on the city line. Even though Northern Ireland is part of the UK, you should write its name as if it were its own country, rather than writing UNITED KINGDOM, to avoid offending those who oppose its current status (NORTHERN IRELAND can be offensive too, but this is the designation used in the USPS International Mail Manual so at least it gets US mail delivered to the right part of the island). The counties of Northern Ireland are Down, Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry, Tyrone and Fermanagh (6) plus Belfast as a County Borough. Derry – the city – is the principal town in Co. Londonderry but until recently it was also called Londonderry. Since the removal of London is a political issue an apolitical vernacular compromise name is now Stroke City (as in Derry / Londonderry). The counties also have Irish names but I don’t know if they can be used in North Ireland addresses. For reference, here they are: English Irish Antrim Aontroim Armagh Árd Mhacha Derry (Londonderry) Doire English Irish Down An Dún → Contae an Dhúin/Co. an Dhúin Fermanagh Fir Manach Tyrone Tir Eoghain David Gowdy writes (Oct 2000), “Rural townland names predate modern postal thinking. In Fermanagh for many years the Council refused to allocate roadnames or postcodes and insisted in retaining these traditional names. Naturally these townlands also had little relationship to the road layout, and houses had no actual numbers – the address was like: “This approach supposes that the postman knows the people rather than their address, which would have been the case in low population rural areas until the 1950’s.” Counties are a much stronger and clearer concept in Ireland than in Britain; it is not clear to me the degree to which county names have been expunged from Northern Ireland addresses, as they have been elsewhere in the UK. Ireland is an independent country completely separate from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Never write UNITED KINGDOM on an Irish address. For the country of Ireland, use, simply: According to the Irish constitution, The name of the state shall be Éire or, in the English Language, Ireland (another form is Éirinn). We use the English-language name, as we do for all other countries, so our post office will recognize it (in fact, the USPS IMM lists EIRE as an alternative name but it lacks the accent so is misspelled). Note that there is no country called the Republic of Ireland; that name was once used, but was abolished long ago; now it is the name of a football team. I have received every assurance that mail addressed to IRELAND is always delivered, even if it should somehow arrive at London or Belfast, rather than Dublin or Cobh. (I don’t know, however, what would happen to mail addressed to, say, BELFAST, IRELAND.) (where Co. means County ), or for Dublin: However, advice found at a now-defunct website in 2004 stated that for addresses outside of Dublin, the County should go on its own line as shown in these examples: You can write the county name in English or Irish. Presumably, should postcodes be instituted, they would go on the county line, as in this example from a GPS Ireland article (in which a PON Code is used): The 26 counties of Ireland are listed below. Cian Brennan pointed out in October 2020 that «some Irish county names always include a definite article in the Irish language. Somewhat more confusingly, they also often take the genitive case when preceded by Co.» These are now noted. He also points out that «there is a further exception to Irish postal addresses, which can be in English or Irish, except in a Gaeltacht (an area officially recognised as a primarily Irish speaking region), where they notionally must be in Irish, unless the address is in Dingle in Kerry. Although practically, An Post the national post office is entirely capable, and normally does, deliver post to entirely English language addresses in the Gaeltacht.» English Irish Carlow Ceatharlach Cavan Cabhán Clare An Clár → Contae an Chláir/Co. an Chláir Cork Corcaigh Donegal Dún na nGall Dublin Baile Átha Cliath Galway Gaillimh Kerry Ciarrai Kildare Cill Dara Kilkenny Cill Chainnigh Laois Laois Leitrim Leitroim Limerick Luimneach English Irish Longford An Longfort → Contae an Longfoirt/Co. an Longfoirt Louth Lú Mayo Maigh Eo Meath An Mhi → Contae na Mí Monaghan Muineacháin Offaly Ua Fáilghe Roscommon Ros Comán Sligo Sligheach Tipperary Tiobraid Arainn Waterford Port Lairge Westmeath An Iarmhí → Contae na hIarmhí Wexford Loch Garman Wicklow Cill Mhantáin Here is a sample Irish address (minus the addressee’s name) in Irish, with its English translation, which probably would not be used 🙂 Cnoc na Sceiche Leac an Anfa Cathair na Mart Co. Mhaigh Eo ÉIRE The Hill of the Thorn The Flagstone of the Storm The City of the Beeves The County of the Plain of the Yews IRELAND The resident of this address (OK, it’s Michael Everson) says: Amazingly, some people have asked if they could write postcards to [the English] address. Of course such a postcard would never, ever, ever reach me. Though, since I am the only Everson in the country, you might as well write: Michael Everson IRELAND P.S. A beef is a slaughtered bovine carcass. COUNTRY INDEX The following list is keyed to the names in the USPS International Mail Manual (IMM). The ISO column shows the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 Code Element (which is also the Internet top-level domain, except GB, which is replaced by UK on the Internet). The third column shows full, native-script, alternative, and/or former names. Former names are in italics. While the IMM allows two or more names for certain countries (e.g. Netherlands and Holland; Taiwan and Formosa; Malaysia and Malaya, Iran and Persia), we should always use the same (and most current) name for each country, since country names can be used as database keys. Links from country names are to the relevant section of this document, where you can find postal code format, address information, examples, stories, and further links. If you need a list of just the current country names, I have one HERE. Daniel Schwarz created a new list from the IMM current in March 2019; you can see it HERE. NOTE: I haven’t been checking the IMM all the time like I once did. What is my ZIP Code? Find your ZIP code based on your geographic position or click the map below to find your ZIP code. You should authorize us to use your location to find your postal code. It works for Colombia, Ecuador, the United States, Mexico and Uruguay. For other countries, go to the home page. 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USPS уходит своими корнями в 1775 год во время Второго Континентального Конгресса, когда Бенджамин Франклин был назначен первым генеральным почтмейстером. Почтовый департамент был создан в 1792 году с принятием Закона о почтовой службе. В 1872 году он был возведен в ранг департамента на уровне кабинета министров и преобразован Законом о реорганизации почты 1970 года в Почтовую службу Соединенных Штатов в качестве независимого агентства.[4] С начала 1980-х годов многие прямые налоговые субсидии для USPS (за исключением субсидий на расходы, связанные с инвалидами и избирателями за рубежом) были сокращены или упразднены. По состоянию на 2019 год в ПСШ США работает 469 934 профессиональных работника и 136 174 непрофессиональных работника. По закону почтовая служба обязана обслуживать всех американцев, независимо от их географического положения, по единой цене и качеству. Почтовое отделение имеет эксклюзивный доступ к почтовым ящикам с пометкой «U.S. Mail» и личным почтовым ящикам в США, но теперь вынуждено конкурировать с такими частными службами доставки посылок, как United Parcel Service, FedEx и Amazon. В Почтовой службе Соединенных Штатов работают 633 188 работников, что делает ее третьим по величине гражданским работодателем в Соединенных Штатах позади федерального правительства и Уолмарта. Отследить посылку из Америки (США) в Россию В некоторых странах мира государственные почтовые службы ни в чем не уступают частным сервисам, гарантируя клиентам быструю доставку отправлений и возможность их мониторинга на пути к получателю. В числе таких служб — государственная почта США USPS, которая успешно работает на пяти континентах, неизменно удивляя низким уровнем цен, оперативностью и возможностью отслеживания посылок почты США на всем протяжении их следования. География работы почты США Учитывая высокий уровень спроса на почтовые услуги, государственная служба Соединенных Штатов USPS успешно осуществляет доставку грузов и мелких почтовых отправлений более чем в 170 государств. Маршрут перевозки выбирается в зависимости от расстояния и может включать в себя так называемые транзитные пункты, где посылки проходят дополнительную обработку. Все пункты временного пребывания груза отображаются при отслеживании почтовых отправлений по идентификатору почты США, что снижает риск потери груза и позволяет в любой момент уточнить его местонахождение. Отслеживание почтовых отправлений почты США USPS в России Чтобы обеспечить адресатам возможность отследить посылку по трек-номеру почты США USPS, каждому отправлению присваивается уникальный идентификатор. Достаточно ввести его в соответствующую форму на сайте почтовой службы или международного сервиса, чтобы уточнить текущий статус отправления и просмотреть маршрут его пересылки. Трек-номер выдается отправителю груза в момент приема и оформления посылки в отделении и остается неизменным на всем пути следования до адресата. Формат трек-номеров В зависимости от формата почтового отправления и его отправки через различные подразделения почты США трек-номер для отслеживания посылок американской почты USPS имеет один из следующих форматов: Литеры и цифровые сочетания подбираются с учетом требований по маркировке почтовых отправлений: Чтобы отследить посылку по номеру трека из Америки, получатель должен запросить у отправителя трек-номер груза. Это позволит рассчитать приблизительный срок доставки и контролировать перемещение посылки на пути в пункт назначения. Основные статусы посылок Все статусы отображаются на английском языке, однако, их перевод обычно не составляет сложностей, т.к. они сформированы с учетом указаний международных стандартов и точно указывают текущий статус посылки (на оформлении, на таможне, следует в страну назначения и т.д.). Чаще затруднения в переводе вызывают следующие обозначения: В некоторых случаях статус сохраняется в течение нескольких дней. Чаще это вызвано сбоем программы отслеживания, который устраняется в течение двух-трех суток. На нашем сайте Вы сможете отследить посылки и другие отправления на русском. Международный онлайн-шопинг с каждым годом становится все популярнее. Заслуженный интерес у многих покупателей вызывают порталы, которые предлагают товары американского производства. Заокеанские торговые площадки хорошо известны широким ассортиментом, поэтому здесь каждый желающий легко сможет выбрать вещи на свой вкус. К тому же современные технологии позволяют клиентам Почты США отслеживание почтовых отправлений проводить в режиме онлайн. А это значит, что больше нет необходимости волноваться о сохранности приобретенной продукции. Почта США отслеживание почтовых отправлений позволяет осуществлять на своем сайте, а также через сторонние сервисы. Как получить необходимую информацию? Для этого нужно совсем немного. Просто узнайте трекинг-номер вашей посылки или бандероли. Дело в том, что USPS отслеживание проводится только с помощью уникального идентификатора. Такой номер присваивается сразу же после оформления отправления и далее передается заказчику. Проследить путь товара максимально быстро и легко поможет сервис Посылки. Просто введите USPS tracking в строку ресурса и нажмите кнопку «Найти». Сразу же после этого на экране появится вся информация о статусе посылки. Чтобы пользоваться услугами USPS отслеживания не нужно владеть специальными знаниями. Все очень просто и доступно. Всего за считанные секунды вы узнаете, где находятся покупки. USPS отслеживание посылок из Америки Отслеживание посылок из Америки работает точно также как отслеживание международных посылок из других стран, просто введите трек номер посылки в поле поиска выше и и нажмите Отследить Посылку. Как узнать где посылка из США Нет ничего проще, чтобы узнать где посылка из США, отследите трек-номер посылки на нашем уникальном почтовом трекере, и вы узнаете где находится ваша посылка из США. Кроме того вы сразу отследите посылку не только на Почте США, но и в почтовой службе вашей страны, и узнаете USPS сроки доставки в Россию, Украину, Беларусь, Казахстан! Отследить посылку с США в Россию Посылки с США в Россию доставляют множество компаний, такие как USPS, UPS, FedEx, Globegistics и другие. Проще всего отследить посылку из США используя наш универсальный почтовый трекер. Чтобы узнать где ваша посылка, введите номер отслеживания в поле поиска на данной странице, и за несколько секунд вы увидите полный путь и текущее местоположение вашей посылки, вместе с примерными сроками доставки. USPS отслеживание USPS отслеживание, для знающих английский язык, доступно на официальном сайте USPS, но удобнее всего отследить на нашем почтовом трекере, потому что мы переводим статусы на русский язык, и вычисляем примерные сроки доставки USPS. Отследить посылку Укрпочта в США Отслеживание Укрпочта в США работает точно также как отслеживание любой международной посылки. Пройдите на сайт USPS Почта США и введите трек номер посылки отправленной из Украины. Отслеживание посылок из Китая в США ЕМС Почта Китая и Почта США создали специальный метод доставки почтовых отправлений из Китая в США под названием ePacket. Номер отслеживания выглядят как Lx. 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Launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers) (farther below) Other postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.) (immediately below) Postcodes of the World Postcodes of the World 1 «Mr. ZIP», informally «Zippy», is a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and later by its successor, the United States Postal Service (USPS), to encourage the general public to include the ZIP Code in all mailings. The type1 design is a standing version of Mr. ZIP, the type2 design is a running version and the type3 design has Mr. ZIP riding a rocket. In 1983, an extended ZIP+4 code was introduced; it includes the five digits of the ZIP Code, followed by a hyphen and four digits that designate a more specific location. The term ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan; it was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address. Country Cancel Date Cancel Location Type of Item Notes on Content Postcodes of the World United States 1969-05-24 Colorado Springs CO (R.E. Nichol magenta and blue and black rubber-stamp) cachet on Apollo-10 event cover, also back Mr. Zip 1 type1 and type3 United States 1969-09-10 Colorado Springs CO Selvedge on C76 stamp on (sub-orbital) rocket launch cover (R.E. Nichol blue and purple and red rubber-stamp cachet), also back Mr. Zip 1 type3 United States 1969-11-19 Cape Canaveral FL Selvedge on C76 stamp and (Doc’s Philatelic Covers/R. Nichol blue and red rubber-stamp) cachet on Apollo-12 lunar landing cover (also C76 FDC); and back red Mr. Zip 1 type3 (on selvedge); blue Mr. Zip (in cachet); «Mr Zip salutes Apollo-12» (in red text) United States 1972-12-11 Cape Canaveral FL (Doc’s Philatelic Covers/R. Nichol cyan and magenta and black rubber-stamp) cachet on Apollo-17 event cover, also back Mr. Zip 1 in spacesuit United States 1972-12-12 Cape Canaveral FL (Doc’s Philatelic Covers/R. Nichol cyan and magenta and black rubber-stamp) cachet on Apollo-17 event cover, also back 1 «Mr. ZIP», informally «Zippy», is a cartoon character used in the 1960s by the United States Post Office Department, and later by its successor, the United States Postal Service (USPS), to encourage the general public to include the ZIP Code in all mailings. The type1 design is a standing version of Mr. ZIP, the type2 design is a running version and the type3 design has Mr. ZIP riding a rocket. In 1983, an extended ZIP+4 code was introduced; it includes the five digits of the ZIP Code, followed by a hyphen and four digits that designate a more specific location. The term ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan; it was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address. Copyright © 2004-2022, Colorado State University. All rights reserved. This Website created and maintained by Don Hillger and Garry Toth. Updated: 2022-07-31 ZIP Code Facts & Statistics July, 2022 Facts & Stats U.S. Counts Number Percent Total U.S. ZIP Codes 41,695 100% General ZIP Codes 29,803 71.5% PO Box ZIP Codes 9,179 22.0% Military ZIP Codes 633 1.5% Unique/Business ZIP Codes 2,080 5.0% Total Multi County ZIP Codes 9,593 23.0% Total General ZIP Codes Observing DST 29,304 98.3% Total General ZIP Codes NOT Observing DST 499 1.7% Total Unique City Names 29,650 100% Total Unique City Alias Names 60,042 100% Avg Population (Census 2010) Per ZIP Code 7,493 100% Avg Population Estimate (Jul, 2022) Per ZIP Code 8,176 100% Avg Number of Changes to ZIP Codes Per Month 392.3 0.9% Avg Number of Changes to ZIP Codes Per Year 4,707.6 11.3% Canadian Counts Number Percent Total Canadian Postal Codes 883,729 100% Total Canadian FSA’s 1,668 100% Total Unique City Names 7,598 100% July, 2022 ZIP Code Counts By State/Province U.S. State/Territory Total ZIP Codes Percent Armed Forces Americas 56 0.1% Armed Forces 399 1.0% Alaska 273 0.7% Alabama 810 1.9% Armed Forces Pacific 178 0.4% Arkansas 705 1.7% American Samoa 1 0.0% Arizona 525 1.3% California 2,584 6.2% Colorado 641 1.5% Connecticut 422 1.0% District of Columbia 300 0.7% Delaware 96 0.2% Florida 1,464 3.5% Federated States of Micronesia 4 0.0% Georgia 950 2.3% Guam 13 0.0% Hawaii 137 0.3% Iowa 1,055 2.5% Idaho 317 0.8% Illinois 1,568 3.8% Indiana 957 2.3% Kansas 747 1.8% Kentucky 944 2.3% Louisiana 719 1.7% Massachusetts 680 1.6% Maryland 603 1.4% Maine 485 1.2% Marshall Islands 2 0.0% Michigan 1,158 2.8% Minnesota 960 2.3% Missouri 1,154 2.8% Northern Mariana Islands 3 0.0% Mississippi 531 1.3% Montana 404 1.0% North Carolina 1,079 2.6% North Dakota 407 1.0% Nebraska 616 1.5% New Hampshire 281 0.7% New Jersey 722 1.7% New Mexico 427 1.0% Nevada 254 0.6% New York 2,150 5.2% Ohio 1,415 3.4% Oklahoma 763 1.8% Oregon 479 1.1% Pennsylvania 2,167 5.2% Puerto Rico 176 0.4% Palau 2 0.0% Rhode Island 90 0.2% South Carolina 534 1.3% South Dakota 386 0.9% Tennessee 785 1.9% Texas 2,598 6.2% Utah 344 0.8% Virginia 1,213 2.9% Virgin Islands 16 0.0% Vermont 308 0.7% Washington 715 1.7% Wisconsin 879 2.1% West Virginia 851 2.0% Wyoming 194 0.5% Canadian Province Total Postal Codes Percent Alberta 90,940 10.3% British Columbia 120,264 13.6% Manitoba 26,807 3.0% New Brunswick 59,241 6.7% Newfoundland and Labrador 11,798 1.3% Nova Scotia 29,193 3.3% Northwest Territories 548 0.1% Nunavut 53 0.0% Ontario 293,281 33.2% Prince Edward Island 4,187 0.5% Quebec 222,846 25.2% Saskatchewan 23,537 2.7% Yukon 1,035 0.1% Get a comprehensive database of all US ZIP Codes including State, County, Area Code, City, Latitude/Longitude, Population, Business Counts, and much more. Learn more about the ZIP Code Database Top 10 Lists of US ZIP Codes * All data here can be calculated by you from our U.S. ZIP Code Database’s. Get a comprehensive database of all US ZIP Codes including State, County, Area Code, City, Latitude/Longitude, Population, Business Counts, and much more. Learn more about the ZIP Code Database Top 10 Lists of Canadian Postal Codes * All data here can be calculated by you from our Canadian Postal Code Database’s. United States Mailing Address Formats and Other International Mailing Information for mailing letters or packages to or from the United States, such as postal rates to (or from) the United States, finding United States addresses, United States postcodes, etc. When mailing an envelope or postcard, leave at least the bottom 16 millimeters (5/8 inch) blank on both front and back. (The postal service’s reading and sorting machines might need this space to print bar codes on your mail.) Address Format Examples Many street addresses include a direction (e.g. E = EAST): An example with the optional latter 4 digits of the zip code: With an apartment/suite/etc. number (which many addresses don’t have): If you don’t have room for the apartment/suite/etc. number on the street address line: Many different terms for street type, or abbreviations for them, might follow the street name. «PO Box» and «POB» are two valid ways of saying «Post Office Box.» Some variants exist. In certain regions, some addresses have a direction after the street name. If an address has two conflicting lines, such as a post office box line and a street address line, the lower line will normally be used if mail can be delivered to that address. Most often conflicting lines are not used. The examples in the table above are in capital letters only, and omit puctuation, because that is what the USPS officially prefers. 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