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

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

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
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

Monsieur
Clyde Hamlet
Poste restante
14390 CABOURG
FRANCE
FRANKREICH