Chinese Address Formats | Western Addresses
For some reason we ended up discussing the difference in address formats between China and the West.
In Chinese you write an address on an enveloppe in the following format
Country
Province,
City, Postal code
Street name
Name of Recipient
In the West (actualy in almost any other country) you write an address like this
Name of Recipient
Street name
Postal code, City (In the US this a reversed)
Country
Collectivism versus Individualism?
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Sunday, November 6th, 2005 at 2:54 am,
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November 6th, 2005 08:56
Come on! Collectivism versus Individualism? Ever seen Chinese people get on a bus? Or buy the last bit of pork in the market? What is Collective about the Chinese people?
The Chinese way of addressing a letter is perfectly logical. The postman needs to know first the country, then the city, then the street…
July 8th, 2009 09:01
@Liuzhou Laowai: so, i guess, each postman in china is delivering only one letter a day if they first need to know the country? “O, it’s japan today, so let’s hurry to deliver this letter to japan.”… postmen are wizards in china, right? … perfectly logical