The theme of the lesson: Address. Writing the address.
III. Reading for information.
Write the address of the recipient in English
We used to write the address from larger to smaller: index, region or region, city, street, house, apartment (if apartment building), name and surname of the addressee. If you send a letter to the United States or the United Kingdom, the address in English is written Vice versa. Here are examples of addresses in the USA:
Joyce Price (имяполучателя)
44 Cedar Avenue (номердома, названиеулицы)
Arcadia Bay (город)
Oregon 97141 (штат, индекс)
USA
Also in the US state names are often abbreviated, in the address below DE means Delaware:
Tyler Durden (имяполучателя)
420 Paper St (номердома, названиеулицы)
Wilmington (город)
DE 19886 (штат, индекс)
USA
“St” means “Street”..
Not all live in homes (”houses“), many live in apartments (”apartment “in the US,” flat " in the UK).
Sheldon Cooper & Leonard Hofstadter
Apt 4B 2311 North Los Robles Avenue (4B – номерквартиры, 2311 – номердома)
Pasadena
California 91108
USA
Usually first the apartment number is written, then the house number, then the street, as in the example above. Sometimes the number of the apartment is written after the streets and houses, marking with a sign #
2311 North Los Robles Avenue, #Apt 4B
Sometimes, that apartment is written on the separated line, if there is place:
Apt 4B
2311 North Los Robles Avenue
Some examples:
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However, it is desirable to sign envelopes, postcards, parcels in capital letters, without using dots and commas. Such recommendation provides, in particular, postal service USPS.
Изображение с сайта www.usps.com
The examples above relate to addresses in the United States. In the UK, the system is almost the same, just do not forget that the apartment in the British version is “flat”, not “apartment”.
Mr. Bean
Flat 2
12 Arbour Road
Highbury
North London
5089
Important note: Russian Post recommends duplicating the name of the country in Russian in international letters. Apparently, in order for the mail sorter to understand for sure which country the letter is sent to:
TylerDurden
420 PaperSt
Wilmington
DE 19886
USA, США (название страны продублировано по-русски)
How to write a return address on a letter abroad?
Let's start with why the envelope needs a return address. Two reasons:
1. The recipient needs the return address to know where to send the reply.
2. The postmen need the return address in case the letter has to be returned.
“Mail of Russia” recommends to write the return address in Russian, dubbing in English the names of countries and cities.
Фото с www.russianpost.ru.
Logic, apparently, is such. Suppose you wrote from Moscow to new York, specifying “Moscow, Russia” in addition to the return address in Russian. American address, of course, in English (marked “USA” for our postal workers). Then the following happens:
1. The letter safely goes to the USA, gets to the necessary post office in New York.
2. New York postman, coming to the address, finds a wasteland/pit / crater – in General, no one lives there.
3. The letter on the American mail is decided to send back. In Russian, no one can read, but they are saved by the inscription “Moscow, Russia”.
4. The letter goes to Moscow, there he was, watching Russian postmen (remember, the return address written in Russian) and no problem sending you marked “addressee not found”.
The disadvantage of this approach is that it will be difficult for the addressee to write you an answer by rewriting the address from “Where”. For an Englishman or an American, Cyrillic is something like hieroglyphs, especially if you write the address in non – block letters. In this case, you can either write your address in Latin in the letter, or fill in the “Where” in Latin.