How to address mail to the UK

[Steve]

---  kemper mentor <kempermentor at ...> wrote:
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> 
>  akh:
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> I'm trying to standardize a new database, and our 
> mailing addresses to folks in the UK are - well - 
> all over the map, as it were.  Since a fair number 
> of you are either in the UK or likely mail to the UK,
>  what's the standard Country listing?  Our system 
> uses England, Ireland, and UK, seemingly in random 
> order ...
> 
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> 
> Kemper now:
> I think writing the country is more for postal workers
> of the mail-of-origin so they know which bin to throw
> the overseas mail in.
> 
> But I'm not a postal worker... just hazarding a guess.
> 
> Kemper

bboyminn;

It's probably not much of a problem within the bounds
of the UK+Ireland. But it is common to include country
for international mail.

So... 

London, England SW1A 0AA 

becomes ... 

London, England, UK, SW1A 0AA

>From a sample website address -
Hilton Hotel
22 Park Lane 
London, United Kingdom, W1K 1BE 

I think reasonably the actual country (England, Wales,
North Ireland) is probably optional. 'United Kingdom'
will get it into the country, and the postal code 
will take over from there. 

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn