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One aspect of German addresses is rather strange, I find as a foreign resident. If a building is split into individual flats, each flat does not have its own nu
by xioxox 13y ago
One aspect of German addresses is rather strange, I find as a foreign resident. If a building is split into individual flats, each flat does not have its own number in the address. Letters are addressed to names in a building. We have to deal with the electricity company with designations like Erdgeschoss Links (ground floor, left). They also get rather confused if married people do not have the same surname.
- chalst 13y agoMarried people with different names is not a problem: you list all of the names on the name shield. This is also common with WGs (shared accomodation). The common case that fails badly is where two people in the same apartment block share the same surname. There is no good workaround for this case, especially given the German resistance to putting first names in formal correspondence.
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- a-priori 13y agoThis was the case when I lived in Switzerland as well. My address was just my name at the building's address. There were 12 units in the building and I don't believe they had numbers. The occupants attached their names to the mailboxes outside the building so the mail carrier knew which box to put things in.