Subj : Articles
To   : alexander koryagin
From : Dallas Hinton
Date : Sun Feb 11 2018 00:41:28

Hi alexander -- on Feb 11 2013 at 09:19, you wrote:

ak> things. For instance, when we lived in the USSR we wrote a postal
ak> address on an envelope in this way:

ak> Postal code, City, street, house, apartment, name.

ak> Now some people in Moscow decided to reverse the order. So, when I,
ak> after waiting in a long queue, came up to the postal office window
ak> to send my parcel, I was refused. I was told that I have to print
ak> the address in other, new way.

I've always wondered why we don't write it that way - but here in Canada it's 
been Name down to Postal code for as long as I can remember (some 65 years 
now!).  It seems very illogical!



Cheers... Dallas

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