How to correctly label the consignment
Together with using proper stamps or another way of payment for postage, clear, accurate addressing is essential to ensure fast and correct delivery of your item.
The key rules are:
- Use Roman letters when writing an address on your item.
- For international items addressed to destination countries that use other than Roman letters, write the address in the alphabet used by the destination country but add the name of the post office and country of destination also in Roman letters.
- Use clear, legible and sufficiently large letters without corrections. The minimum size of typed or printed letters is 0.25cm.
- Do not use red ink or luminescent pens. Such addresses are not machine readable and your item might be delayed.
- If you are addressing your item by hand, please use uppercase letters for the addressee's name.
- Do not underline the postcode and name of post office in domestic addresses.
- In international addresses, use uppercase letters for the post office and country of destination: do not underline them.
Are you not sure about how to format the address?
Use the following examples of properly formatted delivery addresses:
Recommended address formats for domestic mail | |
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Standard format for mail addressed to an individual | Mail addressed to a legal person |
Paní Božena Novotná Stavbařů 4211 190 16 PRAHA 916 | MOTOSPORT, a. s. do rukou p. Ptáčka Plantážníků 421 378 08 DVORY NAD LUŽNICÍ |
Mail addressed to an individual, qualified as "Do vlastních rukou" ("Restricted Delivery") and including the addressee's date of birth | Mail addressed to an individual that is to be delivered through a legal person |
Paní Božena Novotná nar. 1. 4. 1946 Stavbařů 4211 190 16 PRAHA 916 | Pan Václav Ptáček MOTOSPORT, a. s. Plantážníků 421 378 08 DVORY NAD LUŽNICÍ |
Mail addressed to an individual that is to be delivered through another individual ('in care of') | Mail addressed to a public official in his/her capacity of a legal person |
Slečna Kamila Zelená u p. T. Červeného Borovského 33 186 00 PRAHA 86 | Vážená paní Václava Kroupová, senátorka PČR Valdštejnské náměstí 17/4 118 00 PRAHA 011 |
Mail sent Poste Restante to an individual | Standard format for mail addressed to a legal person |
Vážený pan MUDr. Matěj Kopecký poste restante 397 04 PÍSEK 4 | OKNOPLAST, a. s. nám. Svobody 45 460 15 LIBEREC 15 |
Mail addressed to a legal person (exact identification is necessary to avoid mistake for an individual) | Mail addressed to a tax advisor, lawyer, court executor, notary or patent representative that is to be delivered to the addressee in his/her capacity of a legal person |
Firma Vojtěch Pavlát, s. r. o. Truhlářská 7 623 00 BRNO 23 | Mgr. Eva Hásková daňová poradkyně Věnceslava Metelky 114 512 11 VYSOKÉ NAD JIZEROU |
Mail addressed to more than one person at a place without a street system | Mail addressed to an entrepreneur in his/her capacity of a legal person |
Sourozenci Karel a Bedřich Weberovi č. p. 8 378 07 RAPŠACH | Pan Josef Novák, podnikatel Hlavní 1234 130 00 PRAHA 3 |
Mail addressed to a P.O. Box | Mail addressed to a town/village without its own delivery post office |
Pan František Koucký poštovní přihrádka 72 273 01 KAMENNÉ ŽEHROVICE | Vážená paní Marie Kousalová Roprachtice 129 513 01 SEMILY |
Mail addressed to a delivery box | |
Pan Bohumil Frkal dodávací schrána B/52 398 11 PROTIVÍN |
Recommended address formats for international mail | |
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Standard format | Other acceptable language versions |
Paní Anna Osvaldová Staničná 503 SK-952 17 NITRA SLOVENSKO | SLOVAQUIE, SLOVAKIA, SLOWAKEI, SLOWAKISCHE REPUBLIK |
Mr. Wes Rogers 7612 12th Street SEATTLE, WA 98117 U.S.A. | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ETATS – UNIS D`AMERIQUE, VEREINIGTE STAATEN VON AMERIKA |
Herrn Erich Müller Goethestr. 13 22767 HAMBURG B.R.D. | DEUTSCHLAND, ALLEMAGNE, GERMANY, BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND |
Mr. Walter C. Brown 500m North Park DULVERTON, SOMERSET GREAT BRITAIN TA22 9EX | GRANDE BRETAGNE, UNITED KINGDOM, ENGLAND |
Nagy Sándor Hermann Ottó út 2 H – 1022 BUDAPEST MAGYARORSZÁG | REP. DE HONGRIE, HUNGARY, HONGRIE (REP), UNGARN |
Herrn Ulrich Muster Dorfbachweg 4 CH-3324 HINDELBANK SCHWEIZ | SWITZERLAND, SUISSE |
Mme Anna Kowalska Ul. Bosmanska 1 81 – 116 GDYNIA REP. DE POLOGNE | POLAND, POLAND (REP), POLEN, REPUBLIQUE POLOGNE, RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA |
Mr. S. Tan 200 Brodway Rd. WEST BEACH SA 5024 AUSTRALIE | AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIEN |
Sigma d.o.o. Attn. Mr. A. Marin Zagrebacka 17 HR-21001 SPLIT CROATIA | CROATIE, KROATIEN |
Magazin Pravda Medyn, rue Gagarin 7 270045 BRESTSKAJA RUSSIE | RUSSIA, FEDERATION DE RUSSIE, RUSSLAND |
Mail addressed to a P.O. Box | |
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Neuhaus GmbH Postfach 10 00 02 A-9020 KLAGENFURRT ÖSTERREICH | AUTRICHE, AUSTRIA |
Monsieur Aulikki Laasko Case postale 123 FIN-39140 AKOENMAA FINLANDE | FINLAND, FINNLAND |
Mail addressed Poste Restante to an individual | |
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Monsieur Clyde Hamlet Poste restante 14390 CABOURG FRANCE | FRANKREICH |