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Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:29 PM
To: Peter Neilson
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Translations and addresses
Is there really such a thing as the Universal Postal Union???????????
Sounds very sci-fi to me :-)
Kathleen
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Translations and addresses
> From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
> Date: Tue, January 05, 2010 5:45 pm
> To: "Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)"
> <MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com>
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>
>
> Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant) wrote:
>
> > ... if there's a genuine standard I should follow, I'd love to know.
>
> I believe the default language for addressing international
> correspondence is French. English is also quite acceptable. People in
> China with whom I have done business always supply me with a return
> address written in an English transliteration of the Chinese, as well
> as providing the Chinese characters for the name and address, which I
> generally cannot read except for the word for "China."
>
> For some official information, check out the Universal Postal Union.
> An interesting page is:
>
>http://www.upu.int/faq/en/upu/what_are_the_languages_of_the_upu.html
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