I have to send something to an address in Florida. Can you confirm that this is indeed a Florida address and how it should be set out for the courier? It’s all meaningless to me and Google doesn’t help:

Miami 2250 N.W. 1P Unit 114th Ave.
Miami, Fl33172-3652
PTY 28011

[lot number, like our house number] 2250 [which segment of the street]NW 114th Avenue, Unit 1P
Miami, Florida [zip code] 33172-3652
[Propriety, like our Ltd, company number]PTY 28011 [Don’t know why but americans often put this in an address]

I’d rewrite it as:

Unit 1P
2250 NW 114th Avenue
Miami
Florida
USA
33172-3652

PTY 28011

Perfect, thanks!

Why would you have the zip code after the country?

I’d have left it as it was but capitalised the L in the zip code.

I’ve actually emailed the following version to my customer to check:

c/o Unit 1P, 2250 NW 114th Avenue
Miami, Florida
33172-3652
USA

This seems to make the most sense athough I accept that American couriers might have different wiring in their brains to British, who go on the postcode until the last few yards. I’ve had too many packages of samples returned to me months later over the years thanks to not having go the address right in the local format.

Mind you, in Nigeria an address can be something like:

Fred Olasegun
c/o Blessings Mini Market
Behind Balogun Bus stop
Opposite Lagos State Police College
KM 22.5 Abuja Road
etc. etc.

British, who go on the postcode until the last few yards

Mate of mine once sent me a postcard from overseas, couldn’t remember my address so wrote:

[my name],
His dad’s a postman,
Accrington,
England.

… and it arrived safely.

Oh yes, my Dad once sat next to a rather nutty American woman on a flight and she promised to send him a copy of the book she had written. A few months later it arrived from the USA addressed to: Sir Barry (surname), Newcastle, England.

Fred Olasegun
c/o Blessings Mini Market
Behind Balogun Bus stop
Opposite Lagos State Police College
KM 22.5 Abuja Road

Hey! That’s the guy that I sent $10,000 to! I’m still waiting for the $20,000,000 from the central bank, though! They’re taking forever! 😡

😉

My inlaws live in Florida, and this is how their address is formatted-

Unit 1P
2250 NW 114th Avenue
Miami
FL33172-3652
USA

The extra four numbers after the FL33172 are unfamiliar to me, though.

I would put city, state and zip on one line. That’s what I do when sending stuff.

The extra 4 numbers are just an “enhancement” of the postal zip code that most people don’t bother with. Not sure exactly what it enhances, but I think it is supposed to add to the accuracy of the optical scanning process when being sorted—–most people here in the USA don’t use the extra 4 numbers and the mail seems to get there just fine.

Edit: since you are sending from the UK, I would go ahead and use the extra 4 numbers

Same address as here

http://www.lawofficer.com/law-enforcement-products/isog

The USPS bureaucrats speaketh:

http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub28/28c1_001.htm

That reminds me of my in-laws who lived in Abu Dhabi. No postal service to the flat but could receive mail at father in laws work. His address was

Mr ….
ADIA
Abu Dhabi

Such an easy address to remember.