How can I make sure that the international address and phone number of my recipient is correct?
A question that comes back over and over again: I have an address for someplace in a foreign country, but I'm not sure if it is complete (Do I have the entire address?) This is a valid question since in every country addresses have a different structure. An Irish address has no zip code. In the US, you put the house number before the street and in Germany you put it after the street name. Dutch and the UK addresses have letters and numbers in their zip codes and the Germans and Belgians stick to numbers for their zip codes. Luckily, there are some great websites that can be very useful in helping you verify an international address:
For general information on address structure of the address to verify the details of an address,
the Universal Postal Union
Country Specific (Find addresses/phone numbers):
International
http://anywho.com/international.html
Europe
http://www.wayp.com/eng/europa3.shtml
Belgium
http://www.goudengids.be
http:www.1207.be
Czech Republic
http://www.zlatestranky.cz
http://www.cpost.cz
Denmark
http://www.postdanmark.dk/contentfull.dk?lang=en
http://www.krak.dk/
http://www.searchpoint.ws/Search/WhitePagesDetail.asp?key=004447
Finland
http://www.fonecta.fi/
http://www.eniro.fi/
http://www.verkkoposti.com/e3/postinumeroluettelo
France
http://www.laposte.fr/sna/ (Francais)
Germany
http://www.deutschepost.de/dpag?skin=hi&check=yes&lang=de_EN&xmlFile=5750
Greece
http://www.hellasyellow.gr/
http://www.grecian.net/postcodes_e/
Hungary
http://www.magyartelekom.hu/fooldal.vm
Ireland
http://www.anpost.ie/
Italy
http://www.paginegialle.it/index.html
http://www.paginebianche.it/index.html
http://www.poste.it/en/
Latvia
http://www.1188.lv/
http://www.hansaprint.fi/eypeng.html
http://www.pasts.lv/lv/
Luxembourg
http://www.editus.lu/
http://www.ept.lu/
Portugal
http://www.telecom.pt
http://www2.ctt.pt
Slovenia
http://www.posta.si/index.aspx
http://tis.telekom.si/Index.asp
Spain
http://www.correos.es
http://www.paginasamarillas.es/
http://www.tpgpost.nl/voorthuis/zoeken/postcodes/index.jsp (Dutch)
United Kingdom
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm