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Shipping label for Belgium
Fill in the recipient, print at 100 × 150 mm, and the locality lines come out in the order bpost expects.
Belgium address format: how a local address is written
Recipient name first, then the street line, then the locality. In Belgium the locality line reads: Postal code before the city, on the same line.
- Address layout
- Postal code before the city, on the same line.
- Postal code
- 1000
- Code format
- Four digits.
- State or province
- Not used
- Country line
- BELGIUM
- Local script
- Latin alphabet
- Currency
- EUR
- Dialling code
- +32
- Customs status
- EU customs union
Addresses in Belgium are written in the Latin alphabet: copy the street line exactly as the recipient gave it.
Local conventions worth getting right in Belgium
The house number follows the street name, and a box or flat is added with the word bus, as in Kerkstraat 12 bus 3. The four digit postal code comes before the town on the same line, with no comma between them and the town name immediately after the code.
If nobody is home when the parcel reaches Belgium
Belgium splits the window by where the parcel ends up, and the gap is wide. A parcel waiting at a Point d’enlèvement stays for fourteen calendar days, while one placed in a Distributeur de Colis locker is returned after only five. A buyer who reads "collect from a locker" and assumes the usual fortnight is the one who loses the parcel, so it is worth saying which of the two the tracking is pointing at.
Worked example: a parcel arriving in Bruxelles
Sarah Whitfield 27 Weaver Street 1000 BRUXELLES BELGIUM
The last line is the destination country in English capitals, so the exporting post office can sort the item without reading the local script.
Belgium uses postal codes. A valid one looks like 1000, the code for Bruxelles.
The national postal operator is bpost.
No state or province is used in a Belgium address. The city line and postal code are enough.
Generate a label for Belgium
The destination is already set to Belgium. The CN22 customs block appears on its own whenever the route needs one.
Shipment details
An address and handling label, not a carrier label: no postage, no tracking number. The barcode is your own order reference. Print it and add the carrier’s own label at drop-off.
Live label
This parcel needs a CN22 and this template has no room to print one. Switch to the portrait or landscape template, or attach the declaration to the parcel separately.
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Customs status
Belgium is in the EU customs union. A parcel from another member state is in free circulation: no CN22, no declaration, no duty. The generator prints the customs block only on other routes.
Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and the United Kingdom are not in the union, despite the geography.
Track a parcel to Belgium
Have a tracking number for a parcel to Belgium? Paste it here and Labelbench opens the carrier’s page with it filled in.
Inbound items are usually delivered by bpost on the last leg, whichever carrier collected them.
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Sending to Belgium from abroad
Once the parcel crosses a border, the last address line must read BELGIUM in Latin capitals and a customs declaration is required, unless the route stays inside the EU customs union.
Sending inside Belgium
For a domestic parcel, drop the country line and the customs block. Everything else on the label stays the same.
Straight answers · Belgium
What this does, and what it does not
Is this an official postal label for Belgium?
No, and no website can produce one. A carrier label carries a tracking number only bpost or a courier can issue against your account. This is an address and handling label: print it, tape it to the box, and add the carrier’s tracking label beside it at drop-off.
Does a parcel from another EU country to Belgium need a customs form?
Not from another EU member state: that parcel is in free circulation, with no declaration and no duty. From anywhere outside the customs union, a CN22 is required below roughly 300 SDR and a CN23 on a separate sheet above it.
Can I write the address in Latin alphabet?
Addresses in Belgium are written in the Latin alphabet: copy the street line exactly as the recipient gave it.
Guides for shipping to Belgium
The format is only part of it: customs paperwork and handling are what send parcels back.
Shipping to and from the EU customs union
Free circulation inside, full declarations outside, and the European countries that are not members.
How to write an international address
One rule that never changes, and the local conventions that do.
How to fill in a CN22 customs form
Every box explained, plus the three entries that get parcels stopped.
Gift, sale or sample: choosing the customs category
Five boxes, five meanings, and the one that saves you paying duty twice.