Mailing to NY (Cities)

cutiepie12702

I can't remember where I read this, but I know I saw somewhere that people had invitations returned to them because NY was really picky about using abbreviations and/or spelling out the actual word in the address. I can't remember what the issue was - if the NY post offices have an issue if you write out the word Street or Avenue instead of using St and Ave, or if it was an issue with writing out the word Apartment instead of Apt. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or do I sound crazy? haha

Half of FI's guests live in Brooklyn, Staten Island, etc. and I wanted to write everything out instead of using the abbreviations so that it looks nicer, but not if everything is going to get returned to me. For those of you who sent invites to NY, how did you write out the addresses and did you run into any issues? TIA!

smw42

We mailed to a bunch of NYC addresses. I think writing out words is fine- it's just writing out numbers that can cause problems. Like if the person lives on 52nd street of 5th Avenue. It's okay to write out Avenue and Street, but write the numbers as numbers and not words. I'm 95% sure that's what someone had one returned because of. We didn't have any problems but again, I didn't write out any number streets.

But you aren't crazy! I remember the post you're talking about.

misschristinec

Hmm.. not much help here.. but I'm from Brooklyn originally and my address was always
Ave. U
E Xth St. etc
bklyn, ny  

Maybe it's Queens.. seriously it's the only borough that requires you to write the section of Queens as the City, instead of Queens.
So it's
Ridgewood, NY
or
Astoria, NY

instead of Queens, NY

tracey0916

I live in Staten Island and the majority of my invites were from NY.  I had all the addresses written out with no abbreviations and nothing got sent back.  Also, my sister has her own calligraphy business and she says this is what she normally does and she rarely has to redo an envelope because it got sent back for being written out.  I agree it looks much nicer without the abbreviations.

cutiepie12702

Thank you ladies!!!

stapletond

Our calligrapher wrote out all of the streets, avenues, and states so we didn't run into any problems.  As a Queens resident (Astoria), it is really important that you have the numbers correct (especially in Queens).  Most of our friends live in Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Queens, and we didn't have any lost invitations or returned invitations! 

uppereastgirl

I live in NYC and many of my invitations went there.  We wrote our addresses as "123 East 56th Street, Apartment 789" and had no problem.  I used to live on an "East [number]" street and every time I had a package sent to myself I put down east and street spelled out, and I never had a problem with things getting to me, even though the USPS. preferred E. and St.

The only problem I've ever had with sending or receiving mail was recently.  We now live on a non-numbered street, and there is an avenue in the same area code that has the same name.  Someone sent something to "123 Name" without street or avenue, and it took about 2 weeks to get to us.  But it got to us eventually, and that's a really rare situation.