It doesn't matter U.S.A., U.S., United States are all used when addressing an envelope enroute to the United States. {up} Just don't use America, postal workers are bound to get confused.

Khackdrums :D

Oh ok, no problem - it was just a misunderstanding! {thumb2}

Now that you informed us of these recommendations, I'm sure a lot of us learned new things which might help us with our letters! :)

I do apologize for that, I occasionally build weird/unclear sentences due to a GAD+dyslexia combination.

Yeah, those are the government recommendations, but I'm pretty sure some 99.9% of people don't follow them. I know I don't.

Ok, we were just trying to help as it's not like your first post was very clear...

I didn't even know about those recommendations and I got the majority of my requests back regardles. :neutral:

I ended up researching it myself, it seems to be a country-by-country thing. USPS has nothing on it since you don't write it on domestic mail.

Interestingly enough, the following are USPS recommendations for a properly formed address:

Everything should be uppercase
Street types are abbreviated
No commas or periods

I have noticed that's the format many people (friends and relatives) use when they send me mail from other countries.. here I thought they were just being weird.

[quote="dfreely"]Yeah, I already know both works, I was just wondering which one was more "well-formed".

I used to write my address as "100st". It worked perfectly fine, but I eventually switched to the more proper form of "100th street". I was just wondering if there was a similar different between "USA" and "United States".[/quote]
:? We already answered that - it [b]does not[/b] matter, that's why there isn't one that is more "well-formed". The post office can read and understand both, so we cannot tell you one way is better to use. :neutral: It's the same for "Boulevard" and "Blvd.", "st." and "street" - it's the same thing so there isn't a better one.

Yeah, I already know both works, I was just wondering which one was more "well-formed".

I used to write my address as "100st". It worked perfectly fine, but I eventually switched to the more proper form of "100th street". I was just wondering if there was a similar different between "USA" and "United States".

I agree with the others: both should work. I usually write [u]U.S.A.[/u] on my international SASEs and they seem to get to me fine.

BossC

[quote="yellow"]
I don't know why (it's weird!), but to the UK, I write "United Kingdom", but to the United States, I write "USA". :lol: [/quote]

Me too ;)
I think that both will work :)

Good luck :D

Hello dfreely,

I think there is no difference, both will definitely work :) I always write "USA" ;-)


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