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Several years ago I lived in La Paz, BCS, Mexico. A friend of mine worked in the Mail service in that city and told me they received A LOT of mail that was mea
by xtracto 6y ago
Several years ago I lived in La Paz, BCS, Mexico. A friend of mine worked in the Mail service in that city and told me they received A LOT of mail that was meant to be sent to La Paz, Bolivia.
- Ichthypresbyter 6y agoApparently in several cities the staff of the Slovakian and Slovenian embassies meet regularly to exchange wrongly addressed mail.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoThe problem is so acute because these two countries’ own names for themselves are even more similar than in English: Slovensko (Slovakia) and Slovenija (Slovenia).
- Symbiote 6y agoNowadays, several smaller European countries recommend prefixing the postcode with the ISO country code: Kúpeľná 1/A SK-811 02 Bratislava 1 Slovakia Pošta Slovenije d.o.o. SI-2500 MARIBOR Slovenia In fact, I see it's a general recommendation for international post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes#On_the_use_of_country_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes#On_the_us...
- usr1106 6y agoWhile others like the German post does recommend not use abbreviations, but full country names. As this discussion showed, there are plenty of possibilities to get abbreviations confused.