SENDER / POSTER

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Hi! Please, could you help me?When I write a letter to sbd. and I want to write my address on a wrapping too, is it right to write Sender: blah blah... or Poster: blah blah... ?Thanks! Kamila :-)

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

I usually just write my name and address on the back, at the bottom left corner. If you want to, you could just add 'From: ...', but it's not really necessary.

Best wishes, Clive

Kamila · Answer

Clive I usually just write my name and address on the back, at the bottom left corner.

Me too. :-)

CliveIf you want to, you could just add 'From: ...', but it's not really necessary.

Best wishes, Clive

Thanks, Clive!

Nona the brit · Answer

I always put 'From' by my address as I have so little faith in the UK postal service that I worry they will think it is the delivery address otherwise!

Pieanne · Answer

Hi, Clive!

Do you really write your name at the bottom left corner? Funny, because here we write it on the top left corner, on the flap. Your way of doing things is much more intelligent than ours, I must say...

Nona the brit · Answer

I write mine on the back.

Pieanne · Answer

Yes, so do I, but top left, not bottom left...

Kamila · Answer

Umm, I forgot, bottom... oops, i write it on the top!

Eimai_Anglos · Answer

In England we put the return address on the back and strike a diagonal line through it, sometimes with "From" next to it. Alternatively, we put it on the front in the lower right corner or, occasionally, left corner.

It would be stupid to put it at the top because then it might be obliterated by the franking machine. (Amer: "cancelling machine")

For that reason we don't (in theory) write anything more than 2/3 up the front of the envelope. In practice a lot of people do because they have never been taught the correct format.

Having said that, I noticed last week that in Greece they put it at top left on the front!

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