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This works in the Netherlands too, and people commonly use the format for writing the sender address on the back of the envelope. Eg if you live on Braamstraat
by skrebbel 4y ago
This works in the Netherlands too, and people commonly use the format for writing the sender address on the back of the envelope.
Eg if you live on Braamstraat 11, 5614LK Eindhoven, you can write “5614LK 11” as the return-to-sender address and it’ll work. Post codes here are always \d{4}[A-Z]{2} so it’s obvious to anyone (incl the address scan computers) where the postcode ends and the house number starts.
If you mail internationally you can write “NL-5614LK 11” and it’ll also work.
- gpvos 4y agoIt is in fact guaranteed that house numbers are unique within a Dutch postcode. I'm not sure if that is the case in the UK.
- messe 4y agoIn Ireland, each house / letterbox receives it's own postcode (eircode), 7 alphanumeric characters long: XXX XXXX. For example, the full address of the official residency of our President (Áras an Uachtaráin), could be written as D08E1W3.
- rdlw 4y agoAs per a response to the top comment, it can also be written <picture of a little leprechaun>, assuming you get the good letter carrier. https://www.her.ie/amp/lol/unbelievable-this-letter-made-it-all-the-way-to-the-dail-without-an-address-324463 https://www.her.ie/amp/lol/unbelievable-this-letter-made-it-...
- justincormack 4y agoIt is the case in the UK (house numbers or names, houses don't have to have numbers)
- amichal 4y agoI recently moved here and really like that website that need your address here often have just 2 fields house ___ postcode ____ you fill them in and typically it shows you the street name as confirmation (or complains that the house doesnt exist in the post code. Zip+4 was supposed to work in the US for this but i dont think people liked remembering another 9 digit number