Do you write

99 Old Road, Flat 99,
Anytown

or

Flat 99
99 Old Road
Anytown

or

99 Old Road
Flat 99
Anytown

or

does it really matter ??

Flat 99
99 Old Road
Anytown

Not really as posties can read and decipher your stuff

i once sent one by simplying drawing a map and stating the town as I forgot my mates address.

Flat 99
99 Old Road
Anytown

i once sent one by simplying drawing a map and stating the town as I forgot my mates address.

Mate of mine once sent me a postcard from on holiday addressed to,

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

It arrived safely.

Flat 99
99 Old Road
[i]postcode[/i]

I have a couple of a3 posters i can send to you as a pdf telling you exactly how to address an envelope. Remarkably, my organisation has ‘post champions’

Give it to your PA?

What’s a letter?

My Dad once sat next to an American on a plane and she told him she would send him a copy of her latest book. A few weeks later a parcel arrived from the USA addressed to Sir Barry (surname), Newcastle, England.

This seems relevant http://postcardjim.tumblr.com/

my organisation has ‘post champions’

Your organisation needs to focus on the customers more, less on frippary. 😉

Judging by the number of envelopes I get at work with the address clearly written on the front, which are intended for people in widely dispersed parts of the country*, and which often arrive back a number of times after being returned to the sorting office along the road, I would have said it’s irrelevant; it’s a complete lottery as to the letter arriving at it’s intended destination.
*Including one very large, bright pink envelope, addressed to someone in India, which was returned to my place of work seven times over the course of fourteen days.
🙄