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| | FRANK'S COMPULSIVE GUIDE TO POSTAL ADDRESSES |
 | | The situation has improved since then with the appearance of the USPS International Mail Manual (IMM), including an "index of countries and localities", first discovered (by me) in 2000, newly available in HTML so we can link directly to it and to sections of it. |
 | | It should also be noted that addressing guidelines are incidental to the UPU's primary mission, which is creating standards for the description of postal addresses (that is, defining and naming the elements), not for their rendition, which is left to each country. |
 | | Iran, Russia), but since we are sending mail from the USA, it might be safer to use it in all cases because our own postal service must process the address first. |
| www.columbia.edu /kermit/postal.html (11611 words) |
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