Comments on: International? Not us mate!

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:19:23 +0000

It happens the other way around as well! I remember a job offer from Germany being sent to my then UK address without the country written in full, but with the postcode BEFORE the town and GB- before the postcode.

By: Pension Sprachschule Maria Shipley » Blog Archive » How to Address a Woman

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:40:21 +0000

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By: John

John — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:40:48 +0000

We get quite a bit of wrongly addressed mail from friends in UK (it always surprises me how people can’t transfer an address from a letterhead to their address book without reformatting it), but it usually gets delivered, sometimes with a delay. But the address on letters from the bank in Spain is really mangled, and the bank has told us that two letters have been returned as undeliverable in the last two months.

What is annoying is that even their own staff in the branch office in Xàtiva have no possibility to format the address correctly. I think as soon as we have researched for better alternatives, we’ll be changing bank!

By: Maria S.

Maria S. — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:50:11 +0000

We get wrongly addressed mail too, but then only from the U.S.A.

The zip code, is listed incorrectly behind the town, but it gets delivered.
As a matter of fact, we moved from one address to another one, same street though, 13 years ago and we still receive mail addressed to the old one.

Yes, I have told my friends to note the new address, but it goes unnoticed as the street name is the same.

Maybe our postal clerks here in Oberursel are more international than the international companies you deal with.