AMERICA YOU REJECTED ME!!! WHY?

[Valentina Cozzi]

This is already the second envelope rejected, even at another address in the USA, can anyone explain to me the reason? Thanks

[Zorica Obradović]

No one from the USA has ever confirmed that they received my mail... 
it's embarrassing for me to ask... for some other countries 
(for example Singapore),
 they charge them if they are not there the first time to pick up the mail. 
that's what they say...

[Lux of the Agony]

I also got a rejected envelope to Non Local Variable from here in Bishkek.

[Valentina Cozzi]

I THANK YOU ALL FOR THE PRECIOUS ADVICE, I LOVE YOU

[Kiki]

I hear postal mails to USA have to be your address on the top left side and the recipients' address on the bottom right, both addresses on the front side, otherwise the mails may be returned to you ...

[jimmyconnors]

maybe someone took the 1 for a 7

[Thom Courcelle]

Hi Valentina!  Unfortunately, most USA postal mail is read by electronic eye machines now, and they are outrageously particular about how the address is structured.  In the above example, you have the house number and the city quadrant on one line...and the street number listed on a second/different line.  The mail machines cannot decipher the address that way—it should all be on one line:

"2945 NW 153rd Avenue"   or  "2945 NW 153rd Ave"

The City and State abbreviation go on the following line (separated by a comma) and then the postal zip code:

"Bxxxxxxton, XX  00000-0000" *  

*(I've changed Non-Variable's address to a generic letter/number code for his privacy. See his personal page for actual address. He has written it correctly there as it should appear on the envelope for U.S. postal machinery to be able to read it.)

Many times it is okay to put the postal zip code on a separate line:

"Bxxxxxton,  XX

                        00000-0000 "

And , of course, the country you are sending to on the final line...

"U.S.A."   or "United States of America"

In days gone by, there would have been a department that would have had humans manually reading the address if there was any confusion, and forwarding the mail appropriately (because it certainly makes sense to the human eye), but with cut-backs in the U.S. postal system, it is mostly automated now. Also, the postal system is understaffed at present.

Most important is to try to make sure the house number and the street address are all on one line if possible.  And I apologize for all of the U.S. and the terrible state of our postal delivery system right now!!

[PATRICIA LANDON]

After years of returned mail, I no longer place my sender info on the outside, only on the inside. There is no excuse.

[Carien van Hest]

No clue...

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Ooooh, that is so sad, it happens to me , too, with mail art to the USA.

The US postal machines get "confused" with the nice artsy envelopes.

Keep it clean, and bold print ( I even try to use a proper name):