[Dx-qsl] Canada Address Labels ??

[Patrick STODDARD]

Hi!

> Posted from another list:
> 
> "Folks:
>    My post office informed me that as of last January, Canada requires 
> all incoming mail to be addressed in capital letters - had to re-do my 
> handwritten cursive envelope into printed capital letters.
> 
>    The P.O. employee (former Canadian) said it applied to 
> machine-generated (like computer labels) addresses also.
> 
>    Could some of our Canadian members please verify this for us??  I 
> would think computer labels could be caps & lower case, but .....

Canada Post has this page related to addressing mail up there:

http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/tools/pg/manual/b03-e.asp?sblid=standards

Here's a notice from the USPS issued in late 2004 on the topic:

http://www.usps.com/communications/news/press/2004/pr04_069.htm

Hope that helps.  73!


Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK

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