How to write an address in English

Nowadays, fewer and fewer people write letters to each other. But no one has canceled the work of the post office. What remains is business correspondence. After all, if you can send letters by e-mail, you can't send a parcel or package over the World Wide Web. You need to know how to write the address correctly. Especially when sending abroad or for delivery. And we will teach you how to do it.

Some requirements will have to be met.

1. The recipient is listed first.
For example: Andrew Levis or Mr. Andrew Levis in business correspondence.
Abbreviations are often used:
Mr.
Mrs. (addressed to a married lady)
Miss (addressing an unmarried woman).
Ms. - If marital status is unknown

2. Name of the organization.
Used in official correspondence or if no home address information is available.
Mr. Andrew Levis
Walgreens Boots Alliance

3. The next line is the house number, street name (St.), apartment (Apt.).
The apartment is not listed if the house is not an apartment building.
108(house number) Wilmot St. or 200 Waverly Hall Place Apt. 43
A list of required abbreviations can be found at the end of the article.

4. City, state (in the U.S.) and zip code.
Deerfield, Illinois 60015 or Roswell, GA (Georgia) 30125.

5. Country.
Specified for international shipments only. Domestic is omitted.

In full it looks like this:

Ms. Debbie Borker
40 Campbell Street Apt. 76
Fairfield, New Jersey 08669
USA

How we love to order different little things through online platforms! Foreign sites ask you to enter delivery addresses in English. We have to agree and agonize. And there is nothing complicated. But every letter and dash is important. I would like very much that the parcel came clearly to your address and without delays.

Recipient's name is Aleksey Golubev.
Country - Need to choose from the list
Street/house/apartment - to be entered manually.
Region - to be selected from the list
Town, village - manually
Postal code - only digits should be written
Telephone - you should write only digits

The index is very important, because even if you have made a mistake in the address, but the index is correct, the parcel will reach the right post office, where you can pick it up.

Address spelling is slightly different in the US and UK.

1. Let's start with the United States of America.
First, the state in which the settlement is located is necessarily indicated, because there are several cities and villages with the same names. Moreover, each state has an official abbreviation up to two letters. For example: CA - California, FL - Florida (see list below).
Second, in business correspondence, the address is filled out in capital (capital) letters.
Third, it is necessary to write the index, which consists of 5 digits, and each region has a different range.
Abbreviations are also used. The most common ones are: st. - street - street, Ave. - Avenue - Avenue, Bldg. - Building - building, Apt. - Apartment - apartment. A more complete list is at the end of the article.

Mr. Seth Merr
116 Havord Ave. Apt. 6
Lancaster, PA 17102
USA

MRS. KHRYSTY CHOUNCEY
POLICE ACADEMY
480 CROSSVILLE ROAD
ATLANTA, GA 30318

If you include the address in the body of the letter, please keep the order and punctuation: Ms. Karen Klark, 43 Campus str., Cheyenne, WY 76850 , USA

2. Great Britain.
England is a country of traditions. The postal system here was formed back in the 19th century and has not changed much since then.

Here are some differences:
There is no period after abbreviations. Instead of Apt. fl - apartment is used.
County names are not capitalized. This prevents confusion.
It is obligatory to have an index. It is five-seven-digit, consists of numbers and letters with a space in the middle. The first part defines the city and the district, the second part - specifically the street and the house. Each house in Britain has its own code. Addresses with it and are indicated. They pay a lot of money for a prestigious index.

The initial letters in the index, for example:
E - East London
EC - Central London
N - North London, and so on to the sides of the world, except for the south.

When writing the country use Great Britain, not United Kingdom, as there may be technical difficulties.

Mr Walter Green
49 Featherstone street
London EC1Y8SY
GB

3. If you want to send mail to Australia or New Zealand, follow the "American" order: name/home, street, apartment/city, region, zip code.

Ms. S. James
453 Dukes Rd
Kalgoorlie WA 6965
Australia

The correct spelling of cities, zip codes can be found on official postal websites.

It is not difficult to ask a general question in Past Continuous. To do this, you should put was/were in the front of the sentence.
They were traveling by car across the Asia. (statement)
Were they traveling by car across the Asia? (Take out the auxiliary word at the beginning and you get a question.)
He wasn't greeting the delegation of scientists. (negation)
Was he greeting the delegation of scientists?

And let's answer our questions right away.
Were they traveling by car across the Asia? - Yes, they were.
Was he greeting the delegation of scientist? - No, he wasn't.

Special ones are formed with the help of question words.
Who was making short videos? This is a question to the subject.
Why was she working at her office at 3 o'clock?
What were you dreaming of yesterday?
When were they walking last time?
Note that the subject separates the auxiliary and main verbs.

Petr Smirnov
OOO “Ugol”/ООО «Угол»
st. Ospanova, d. 52/2 /ул. Оспанова, д. 52/2
Aktobe/Актобе 030000
Kazakhstan/Казахстан

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