How to write the address correctly on postal items

In the age of computers and cell phones, when any message to a friend or relative can be sent instantly and in a few minutes to receive an answer from him, there is still a need for postal services, too. Many types of goods are purchased in online stores that send out purchases by mail. A letter to a friend in the army is almost impossible to send in another way. In order to be sure that the message will come quickly, on time and guaranteed to go where we would like, it is necessary to know how to correctly write the address on the parcel or envelope and to fulfill several basic rules for filling the mail items:

1. The recipient's address is always written in the lower right corner, leaving a place for stamps at the top of the envelope. It is advisable to indicate in full the name, first name and patronymic of the addressee. For some types of dispatches it is necessary to present a passport upon receipt of the message. The name of the country is not written if the letter or parcel is sent to Russia.
2. It is necessary to clearly and correctly indicate the index of the addressee, which can be installed on the Internet or in the directory of mail workers.
3. The sender's address is also indicated in full. The letter can be returned because of the absence of the addressee or his refusal to receive the letter.
4. It is recommended that all labels be printed and used in black or blue.
5. If you have any difficulties and do not know how to write the address correctly on the message, you can use the sample that is available in each post office.

If the letter goes to the army, you should know that the envelope indicates not only the part number, but also the address of its location: country, region, city or locality, unit number. For enlisted servicemen, Order No. 345 of 09.12.2005 approved the procedure for providing them with mail-stamped envelopes for sending simple letters, and the Russian Ministry of Defense, at its own expense, sends out items of servicemen with their personal clothes. Every serviceman should know how to correctly write the address on the envelope so that relatives can receive correspondence from him and write back letters to him, send parcels, money orders.

When sending items abroad, the address is written using Latin letters and Arabic numerals. It is allowed to write the address in the language of the country where the parcel is planned to be sent, but the address is additionally repeated in Russian. In order to know how to correctly write the address for a recipient in another country, it is necessary to follow the following instruction: first write the name of the organization or person to whom the message was sent, and then the street and house number, city name, district in the region and the name of the area where The recipient lives. Lastly, the name of the country is written.

Teaching children the correct design of postal items must start from an early age, so that a similar skill was formed in the period of increased interest of the child to everything new. You can start such training by playing with the kid in story-role games, such as "Mail", "Telegraph". Before this, it is recommended to visit with the child mail, to demonstrate how the design and sending of letters and parcels takes place. Show how to correctly write the address and index on the envelope or on the parcel. Figures the child learns quickly and it will be possible to instruct even the preschooler to carefully deduce the index on all postcards, which parents send by mail to relatives. Later, after the very action of sending out mail items with the help of the game is mastered, it is possible to invite the kid to write a letter to a real person or fairy tale character. Tell that in order to guarantee a gift from the grandfather Frost, you need to know how to write the address, so that the letter came to him in Veliky Ustyug.

Knowing these simple rules, each person can successfully use the services of mail and is guaranteed to receive ordered goods, send correspondence, parcels and letters to his friends and relatives.