numbered streets (e.g. 6th, 2nd) can be written in either English or French. If there is an apartment number it should be written before the house number and separated by a hyphen. Name of city or town followed by two letter provincial abbreviations Postal codes come in a letter-number-letter-space-number-letter-number format, for example: A1A 1A1. There should be two spaces between the province abbreviation and the postal code. If sending a parcel from outside Canada, the word "CANADA" must be placed at the very bottom. See the example below for a comparison of the English and French address formats: English (from Canada Post): NICOLE MARTIN 123 SHERBROOKE ST TORONTO ON L3R 9P6 French (from the OQLF): Monsieur Jean-Pierre Lamarre 101–3485, rue de la Montagne Montréal (Québec) H3G 2A6 See Canada Post's Addressing Guidelines for accurate, up-to-date information on the addressing guidelines most commonly used in Canada. See the Office québécois de la langue française's Adressage webpage (in French only) for more information about how to write an address according to guidelines used in Quebec and other French-speaking areas. Chile Chilean urban addresses require only the street name, house number, apartment number (if necessary) and municipality; however, more information is frequently included, such as commune (neighbourhood or town) and region. Postal codes are rarely included by people. All postal codes have seven digits, the first three indicating the municipality, the next four identifying a block or in large and scarcely populated areas a quadrant within the municipal territory. The territories of most of the larger cities comprise several adjacent municipalities, so it is important to mention it. Smaller cities often consist of only one municipality with several unofficial comunes (neighborhoods) that are usually mentioned even for official addressing purposes. Several large and mostly rural municipalities contain more than one small town, in such cases, the recipient address must mention either the town, the postal code or both. In other towns or rural communities there are no house numbers and addresses are generally identified by company name followed by only a street name follow by some reference point. China In China, the Postal area when written in Chinese characters (preferably Simplified Chinese characters), has the order of the largest unit first, ending with the addressee, i.e. country, province, municipality, town, street or road, building name, floor/level, house/flat number, company name, addressee. This is the most common language used when posting within mainland China.