Okay, so I searched everywhere and some how can't find it... I know I saw it before here, or thought I did.
Anyways my question: I have several guests who have a direction in their address (south, north west, east etc) I read somewhere that if it was in the middle of the address you do one thing and if it's at the end of the address you do something different... does anyone know which one gets written out and which gets abbreviated?
Re: Addressing invitations
The Postal Service prefers if you use the abbreviation. I've seen it written out on very formal correspondence (black-tie invitation), but I don't think it's a big deal not to.
Mary Jones
111 West Williams St
Apt J
Fillyville, PA 00000
If you're doing really elegant, classy or formal - I would write everything out. That's what we did for ours.
For more laid back and casual, I don't see anything wrong with abbreviations.
I went with P.O just because it looked so much better and we have a mailman in the family, he said that most mailmen are used to seeing P.O Box....if you do Post office box it might end up at the actual post office...LOL
I am kind of confused because I thought that PO Boxes aka Post Office boxes ARE in the post office...so wouldn't it be correct if it ends up at the actual post office? Or am I being dense? lol
EDITED - quote fail.
No you weren't being dense at all. I just didn't word it correctly. Sorry about that.