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Apparently in several cities the staff of the Slovakian and Slovenian embassies meet regularly to exchange wrongly addressed mail.
by Ichthypresbyter 6y ago
Apparently 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.