Marc Paré <[email protected]> schrieb am 2010-10-04 > We tend to follow our federal postal authority guidelines called "Canada > Post" who used to have reference books volumes at their postal outlets > but now promote their website reference areas and when posting overseas > they would prefer country code designation ( > http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/manual/PGintdest-e.asp -- you just > click on the country and it will return the country code) which are btw > the ISO country code designations.
This is definitely going way off topic, so this is my last remark. <OT>I'm quite sure the German Postal Services (we don't have a Federal service anymore, it's been privatized) have some guidlines as well and I'm quite sure most companies, who do their mail using some programm or other follow those guidlines as well. But most private citizens will not. One reason is, they don't know about those guidlines and are too lazy to look if there are any. And most people will not go into the web to look if there are any guidlines. After all the postal services have computer systems that are quite clever and are able to sort by country names as well. If you are sending a postcard there even is (most of the times) an extra line for putting the country name (under the two lines designated for ZIP and town). But that's neither here nor there. </OT> After all, I think the way Romain has posted is the best. Use the two-letter codes we (and most others) are already using and in case of problems, let's find solutions for those because there may be some isolated problems but there definitely is no general problem... Oliver
