Hungarian addresses are (or were) worse. According to http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/ http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/, it's: 1. name of recipient, 2.

Hungarian addresses are (or were) worse. According to http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/ http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/, it's: 1. name of recipient, 2. town name, 3. street address or post box number, 4. four digit postal code. (I have a vague memory of seeing that sort of order in German, too, in a historical context, but perhaps it was from Austria-Hungary.)