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Irish Print Address Format

The document provides information about addressing envelopes for mail sent within Ireland. It details the standard address format, rules for writing addresses, and examples of addresses written in the Irish format.

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Irish Print Address Format

The document provides information about addressing envelopes for mail sent within Ireland. It details the standard address format, rules for writing addresses, and examples of addresses written in the Irish format.

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Md Abul Bashar Sumon
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Ireland

Position of the Bottom left- Alignment of Left-


address on the hand corner address lines aligned
envelope

Address format A standard address is in the following format:


– line 1: name of addressee;
– line 2: name of organization;
– line 3: house number, or name if house has no number, and street name, if
applicable;
– line 4: name of locality;
– line 5: name of postal town and district for Dublin, if any;
– line 6: name of county (unless identical to name of town);
– line 7: name of country.
The following rules should be followed when writing the address:
– avoid punctuation marks, underlining and handwritten addresses;
– the recommended character font is Arial (black text on white ground); however,
Century, CourierLetter Gothic and Helvetica may also be used;
– 11, 12 or 13 point fonts are preferred, with a tone value of 10, 11 or 12;
– the address lines should ideally be 3 mm apart, up to a maximum spacing of 4
mm;
– all characters should be of the same size and style;
– there should be no more than 32 characters per line, not counting spaces;
– any empty lines are deleted.
Return address
All mail must include the sender’s address. These rules should be observed:
– the sender’s address should appear on the front upper left-hand corner of the
envelope;
– the address should be placed next to and not below the postmark;
– no line should exceed 80 mm in length.

Examples Ms M Sullivan
12 Morehampton Road
DUBLIN 4
IRELAND
Mr J Murphy
ABC Company Limited
1 Dublin Road
Portlaoise
CO LAOIS
IRELAND
Mr B Smyth
20 Rock Road
Blackrock
CO DUBLIN
IRELAND
Contact An Post Tel: (+353 1) 705 97 83
International Letter Post Fax: (+353 1) 705 07 63
Dublin Mail Center
Knockmitten Rd
DUBLIN 12
IRELAND
Website http://www.anpost.ie/www.anpost.ie
; 03/2005 © www.upu.int

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