[AccessD] Addresses

http://www.canadapost.ca/personal/tools/pg/manual/b03-e.asp#c002

an excerpt:

• Addresses should be written in upper case; however, mailers may wish to 
use lower case due to individual preference or other considerations.
• Postal codes must be printed in upper case with the first three elements 
separated from the last three by one space (no hyphens).
• The municipality, province or territory, and postal code should always 
appear on the same line.

I don't know when this became the standard but the standards were devised to 
work with scanning equipment for machine sorting/routing.  I've been 
following this standard for several years.


Ciao
Jürgen Welz
Edmonton, Alberta
jwelz at hotmail.com





>From: "Bob Gajewski" <rbgajewski at adelphia.net>
>
>Jürgen:
>
>I'm curious ... did the guidelines change? When I ran a mail and file room 
>a
>few years ago, we were informed by Canada Post that the postal code was
>required to be on a line by itself.
>
>NAME
>ADDRESS
>MUNICIPALITY PC
>Z9Z 9Z9
>
>Regards,
>Bob Gajewski
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jürgen Welz
>Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 19:53
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] Addresses
>
>
>Canada post guidlines stipulate City, province abbreviation and postal code
>appear on a single line.  The prefer a fixed width font, no punctuation
>except where it is part of an official name and one space between words, 
>two
>spaces before the postal code.  All my Canadian addressing adheres to this
>standard.
>
>I would never combine these into a single storage field.  I split these 
>bits
>of information in order to be able to find/sort/filter.  I can see where
>allowing a user to modify a particular combination/order of field data into
>a single address would be useful if you cannot arrive at an algorithm that
>handles all scenarios.  Fortunately I only use Word for automation for
>anything requiring addressing and I have few countries to handle so I have
>not had to resort to a memo field for this data.
>
>Ciao
>Jürgen Welz
>Edmonton, Alberta
>jwelz at hotmail.com
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Martin Kahelin" <mkahelin at gorskibulk.com>
> >
> >Arthur;
> >Travel - expand your world - do some web surfing.  Many web sites list
> >the address information in a preferred/required format.  Found this from
> >"singapore address" with google
> >
> >NORBAR SOUTH EAST ASIA
> >9 Raffles Place
> >#27-01
> >Republic Plaza
> >SINGAPORE 048619
> >
> >-am I being too simplistic?
> >Damn Canadians - had to put that insane postal code on a separate line
> >from province > bigger labels (I'm Canadian so I can criticize!)
> >Have a good week-end.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 5:17 PM
> > > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> > > Subject: [AccessD] Addresses
> > >
> > >
> > > I always use a memo field for Addresses. The front end may
> > > present a list of countries, cities and
> > > provinces/states/cantons, and I store these too, but I
> > > assemble the address according to a template in the Countries
> > > table. It could be a by-product of the apps I've worked on,
> > > and useless to anyone else, but in Europe the most common
> > > address format places the street number after the street name
> > > (i.e. Amstrat 300). There are many similar variations from
> > > country to country or continent to continent, so I handle it
> > > with a template in the Countries table which looks something
> > > like this (for the Netherlands, say):
> > >
> > > \StreetName\ \StreetNumber\
> > > \City\, \Province\
> > > \PostalCode\
> > > \Country\
> > >
> > > Then it's trivial to use Replace() to dump the actual data
> > > into the template.
> > >
> > > I would appreciate input from non-North-Americans on this so
> > > I can add new templates for your countries.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Arthur

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