Europe · IT
Shipping label for Italy
Fill in the recipient, print at 100 × 150 mm, and the locality lines come out in the order Poste Italiane expects.
Italy address format: how a local address is written
Recipient name first, then the street line, then the locality. In Italy 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
- 00184
- Code format
- Five digits.
- State or province
- Not used
- Country line
- ITALY
- Local script
- Latin alphabet
- Currency
- EUR
- Dialling code
- +39
- Customs status
- EU customs union
Addresses in Italy are written in the Latin alphabet: copy the street line exactly as the recipient gave it.
Local conventions worth getting right in Italy
The house number follows the street name, never precedes it, and any flat or staircase number belongs on that same line. The province code goes after the city on the closing line, as in 04100 LATINA LT. Parentheses around it are common in print, but Poste Italiane asks senders to leave them off an envelope so the automatic readers are not thrown by them.
If nobody is home when the parcel reaches Italy
The Italian giacenza runs for ten working days and Saturday counts as one, starting the working day after the date written on the missed delivery card. The date on that card is the one to go by rather than any general rule, and Poste Italiane publishes it in the tracking as well. One quirk worth knowing as a sender: a parcel is only returned to you free of charge if return was requested on the waybill at posting, and an item with no such instruction can be treated as abandoned.
Worked example: a parcel arriving in Roma
Sarah Whitfield 27 Weaver Street 00184 ROMA ITALY
The last line is the destination country in English capitals, so the exporting post office can sort the item without reading the local script.
Italy uses postal codes. A valid one looks like 00184, the code for Roma.
The national postal operator is Poste Italiane.
No state or province is used in a Italy address. The city line and postal code are enough.
Generate a label for Italy
The destination is already set to Italy. 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
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Customs status
Italy 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 Italy
Have a tracking number for a parcel to Italy? Paste it here and Labelbench opens the carrier’s page with it filled in.
Inbound items are usually delivered by Poste Italiane on the last leg, whichever carrier collected them.
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Sending to Italy from abroad
Once the parcel crosses a border, the last address line must read ITALY in Latin capitals and a customs declaration is required, unless the route stays inside the EU customs union.
Sending inside Italy
For a domestic parcel, drop the country line and the customs block. Everything else on the label stays the same.
Straight answers · Italy
What this does, and what it does not
Is this an official postal label for Italy?
No, and no website can produce one. A carrier label carries a tracking number only Poste Italiane 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 Italy 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 Italy are written in the Latin alphabet: copy the street line exactly as the recipient gave it.
Guides for shipping to Italy
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.