[HPFGU-OTChatter] How to address mail to the UK

[Random832]

kemper mentor wrote:
>  akh:
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> I'm trying to standardize a new database, and our mailing addresses to
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>  folks in the UK are - well - all over the map, as it were.  Since a
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>  fair number of you are either in the UK or likely mail to the UK,
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>  what's the standard Country listing?  Our system uses England,
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>  Ireland, and UK, seemingly in random order (some English addresses are
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>  UK; some are England.  Ireland seems pretty consistently Ireland; I'm
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>  presuming it would say Northern Ireland if it were supposed to be UK.)
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>  Does it matter?  Am I fretting over nothing?  Or, should I change
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>  England Scotland and Wales to UK?  (I don't think I have any N Ireland
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>  addresses right now.) Enquiring minds want to know!

Apparently, you can leave them as-is, or write "United Kingdom" - NEVER 
write "UK" when addressing mail from the united states to britain, at 
least according to this site:
http://bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html
WARNING: "UK" doesn't mean "United Kingdom" to the United States Postal 
Service!  Don't mark your mail "UK" or pick "UK" in most computerized 
postage/addressing systems if you want to send mail to Great Britain. 
The United States Postal Service has computer systems that use UK as an 
abbreviation for "Ukraine".

The universal postal union recommends "UNITED KINGDOM" or "ROYAUME-UNI". 
countries are always written in all uppercase.

The USPS, http://www.usps.com/international/addressingintlmail.htm
gives examples including "ENGLAND".

"ENGLAND" has worked for me in the past.

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html#uk is another useful 
resource. It recommends using the specific country name.

If sending from Canada, you apparently must use GREAT BRITAIN according 
to this site.

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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.
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> But I'm not a postal worker... just hazarding a guess.
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> Kemper
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