Re: Translations and addresses

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

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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