How it works

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Follow the tips from your postman on how to write your recipient’s address correctly on your envelope.

Six tips from your postman

Picture of an adresse correctly written on an envelope

  1. A Try to use envelopes with an address box for your handwritten letters.
  2. B Use 6 lines maximum to write your address.
  3. C Never put a comma, full stop, apostrophe, underline or dash after the street number.
  4. D Write the 5 numbers of the postcode very distinctly. If you are not sure what the postcode is then ask at your local post office or click here to find a postcode.
  5. E Write the last line, and if possible the whole of the address, in capitals.
  6. F Write your sender address on the back.

    If you are writing to a company then don’t forget to write the PO box and CEDEX indication in capitals.
    Click here to test your address online.

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Lady posting a mail into a mailbox

You may post your letter in one of the 125,000 street letterboxes across France.

You may also post it in a post office.

To find your nearest post office, click here.


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Postal worker collecting mail
The postmen collect the mail from the letterboxes.

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Postal worker separating international from national mail in a postoffice
All mail collected in the letterboxes of one or several districts is collected and sorted, with international mail separated from national mail.

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Picture of a postal train
No fewer than 3 high-speed trains, 26 planes and 500 lorries carry the mail to the destination sorting centre!

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Focus on a postal worker
Once it arrives at the sorting centre, the mail is organised in the order of the postman’s round.

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Postal worker delivering mail by bike
The mail is delivered to recipients 6 days a week!

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