[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board

[Marc Paré]

Le 2010-10-04 10:56, Oliver Burger a écrit :
> Marc Paré<marc at marcpare.com>  schrieb am 2010-10-04
>>> I would write "Ukraine" if I were to send a mailing package there. That's
>>> the way it's done at least in Germany...
>> Ok, but what to the other German citizens use? Do the as well use the
>> full name or do they not follow a country code set by the postal
>> authority? The same question in other European countries?
> I think, most people use the full name, when writing letters to other
> countries. I can't speak of other European countries but the Germans do.
> And I think one of the reasons is, there are many national states in a small
> area compared to Northern America. And most people wouldn't even know, what
> the county codes for most of their neighbours are. If you would ask me, I
> couldn't say I knew even one without looking it up.
>
> Oliver
>

We tend to follow our federal postal authority guidelines called "Canada 
Post" who used to have reference books volumes at their postal outlets 
but now promote their website reference areas and when posting overseas 
they would prefer country code designation ( 
http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/manual/PGintdest-e.asp  -- you just 
click on the country and it will return the country code) which are btw 
the ISO country code designations.

Marc