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One template, many address rules
Shipping labels by country
There is no such thing as a French label or a Japanese label. There is one parcel label and 240 sets of address rules. This site carries the postal ordering for each destination and prints the country name in English capitals on the last line, as the Universal Postal Union asks.
15 destinations
The generator itself covers all 138 destinations. The pages listed above are the ones where two separate things have been researched against the national postal operator: how a local address is written, and what happens to a parcel when nobody is home. A destination gets a page once both are verified, and not before.
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Track a parcel you have already sent
Paste a tracking number and Labelbench opens the carrier’s own page with it already filled in. 129 couriers and postal operators, and it reads the origin country straight out of the number.
Why the address order changes and the last line does not
Every country orders the middle of an address to suit its own sorting machines. Germany puts the postal code before the city, the United States puts the state between the city and the ZIP, and Japan reverses the whole hierarchy when it is written in Latin script. Get that order wrong and the parcel still leaves your country, because your own post office only reads the last line. It fails later, in a sorting centre where nobody will phone you about it.
The last line is the exception, and it is the one rule that never changes. The Universal Postal Union asks for the destination country in capitals, in English, alone on the final line, so that the exporting operator can route an item without reading the destination’s script. That is why a parcel to Japan carries JAPAN rather than 日本. Everything above that line is written for the postman who delivers it; that line is written for the machine that exports it.
What a researched page adds
The format alone is derivable, so a page carrying only the format would say much the same thing as every other page with the same layout. Each destination listed here has been read against its own postal operator’s published guidance and carries two or three rules a sender could plausibly get wrong: where Spain wants a comma that Germany forbids, why a British postcode belongs alone on the final line, which prefix Deutsche Post now asks senders to drop. Destinations without that research are still in the generator and still format correctly, but they get no page, because a page that only restates the format is not worth reading.