It is very important to know how to correctly label a letter or envelope, since making a mistake can cause a delay stern when delivering the letter to its destination. Sometimes it can even cause never arrive to your destination and post office prohibits collection.
Where should you write the address?
The first thing we must do is take the about and put it on the table so that the flap of the envelope is facing down, that is, we must write on the part without a flap. And you should not do the following things:
- Do not put the about From top to bottom, you should write from left to right of the envelope.
- Don't write your name in the center, write it in the top left corner.
What information should I put in the sender?
He sender It must be you, and you must put a list of things that will make sure that if your letter does not reach the destination point, it will come back and not I ended up lost or discarded. This is important since without it we will not have return address. What should you put?
- In the upper left corner As we indicated above, you must write your full name. For example, "Manolo García García"
- under the name we have to write the address of your street, the address you have at the post office. For example, "Calle Don Quijote nº1". If we have a floor and a door, we must add them at this point.
- Finally under the direction must enter the city, province and postal code. For example, "San Vicente, Barcelona, 52003". If by chance your city and province take up a lot of space, put the zip code below.
What information should I put in the recipient?
He addressee is the person you are going to send the letter to, with a much larger size in the center of envelope we will have to write all the data. It is very important that you put much larger than the sender's data so that they can be distinguished well.
- If we are going to write a formal letter we must add the "Sir" or "Madam" if it is an ordinary letter, we must simply write full name.
- Under the name we have to put the exact direction to which the letter goes, with all the luxury of signs, from the street, to the door, passing through the exact floor if you live in an apartment block.
- Finally, as in the previous case, we have to put under the direction, the city, province and postal code of the person to whom you are sending the letter.
You may be interested in this article about "How to write a formal letter in a simple way".
What stamp should I put?
Usually sending a letter is not going to cost much, if it is a small letter with a simple stamp would be enough, but if not, the Post Office has different rates according to the letter, and it all depends on the weight, the place we are sending to, and a long etcetera. Keep that in mind when carrying the envelope.
You cannot choose any stamp when sending our envelope, we must go to the page Post Office website and use the rate calculator. This calculator will plot a price based on quantity, origin, destination and RRP
