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New York, N.Y.

在美國寄信,一定要填寄件人的地址,你可以亂填,但一定要填。沒有寄件人的信,郵政局不會給你派的。

美國的地址是有郵政編號的,是不是只有香港才沒有郵政編碼這東西呢?很多國家的地址都用郵政編碼劃分的,以方便派信。

美國的地址最後一欄是市名和州名加郵政編碼。通常市名跟州名是兩回事,但是紐約的曼哈頓區的地址寫法是New York, N.Y. 12345。這個12345是亂作的,曼哈頓區的各個郵政編碼頭三個數字100,例如我以前住的西村是10014,全美最貴的區是10021,即曼哈頓的上東城。所以,很多人只視曼哈頓是紐約市,其他幾個行政區都是市郊或郊區。

瘋魔全球的超級肥皂劇《色慾都市》幾位女主角就以住在曼哈頓為榮,如果有人要去其他區走動,都會有人尖叫。不是說笑,現在仍有不少曼哈頓人是足不出「紐約市」的。我有朋友更對我稱從不去五十九街以下的地方。

(廣義的)紐約市其中一個吸引人的地方是雜──人雜得很。如果足不出戶,那跟住在你原居地沒有什麼分別,只是出門多見幾楝大廈和幾輛黃的士而已。

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  1. lcl
    六月 24, 2010 at 8:58 pm | #1

    I did not know a letter must have a return address or the postal office won’t deliver it. I just always do which is very infrequent anyway. I don’t think you need to put the periods there in the State abbreviation, I think the USPS standardization suggests not to but I am not going to check now. One more thing, there is also the ZIP + 4 like 11358-3610 to even make the zone improvement code more finely tuned.

    For people live outside Manhattan, they call them the “bridge and tunnel crowd,” a mildly derogatory term I suppose.

  2. 六月 26, 2010 at 5:18 am | #2

    lcl,

    I didn’t check it either. I don’t remember where I got this idea.

    Yes, there are four digits too. But it’s very official, I suppose.

    Haha…I never heard such name. Don’t care about it.

  1. 一月 2, 2011 at 8:22 am | #1

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