[Please include attributions, Lee.]
Lee Goddard wrote:
> [Philip Newton wrote:]
> > Philip Newton wrote:
> > > Hamburg, Germany.
> >
> > Postcodes: home 21077, work 21149 :)
> >
> > (Or D-21077, D-21149 from outside .de, with car
> > registration country code [or whatever they call
> > it] prepended.)
>
> Well, if you're being picky .... isn't it just
>
> Hamburg 21077
No. Inside Germany: "21077 Hamburg". From outside Germany: "21077
Hamburg\nGERMANY" *or* "D-21077 Hamburg". I thought I saw somewhere that the
form with car letter and without the country explicitly written is preferred
inside Europe, but I'd still write the country name for safety. And hardly
ever "Hamburg 21077", except when I'm ordering stuff from America and they
can't figure out that not everybody puts the ZIP code (which it isn't, in
this case) after the town. (Some even insist on "Hamburg, HH 21077".) Thank
goodness that postal codes are now five digits in Germany[1] or some stupid
web forms might reject them as being too short.
> ? Works for me. Not that I'd *dream* of such a part of Hmaburg!
> More my line is 22397 is much nicer, mainly because it is *now* a
> nature reserve.
Not sure off-hand where that is. North-east? Volksdorf sort of area?
Cheers,
Philip
[1] They used to be four digits, with an optional sub-division number after
the name of the locality. Work used to be 2104 Hamburg 92, and home I
suppose 2100 Hamburg 90, but I didn't live here then, but rather in 2082
Tornesch [no extra number]. Mail to East Germany or vice versa had to have a
country code prepended as in D-2000 Hamburg xx or DDR-1234 whatever. Then
came the reunification, and the letters were "W-2000" for west and "O-1234"
for east, since some numbers were in use both in the west and in the east.
Then came the five digit thingy, with no extra numbers after the town
possible. Some big companies now have their own postal code if they receive
lots of mail. A big book of postal codes was distributed free of charge to
every household; it's sorted first by locality, and then those places that
have more than one postal code are listed separately where you can look up
the postal code by street name (and, if necessary, by house number range).
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Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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