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learn_russianNot directly language related, but I hope you can still help me:
I'm mailing a package from America to a friend in Russia, but I've heard crazy tales about Russian post offices and I'm concerned that my New Year's gifts might not reach their destination unless I take some special precautions. How would you go about sending a package to Russia? This is my first time doing this.
For instance, I need to write the recipient address in English and Russian, right? And fill out the customs forms of course... I bet this will be so expensive :/
If this has been asked before or some other site talks about this, just point me to a link. Thanks.
I'm mailing a package from America to a friend in Russia, but I've heard crazy tales about Russian post offices and I'm concerned that my New Year's gifts might not reach their destination unless I take some special precautions. How would you go about sending a package to Russia? This is my first time doing this.
For instance, I need to write the recipient address in English and Russian, right? And fill out the customs forms of course... I bet this will be so expensive :/
If this has been asked before or some other site talks about this, just point me to a link. Thanks.
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Date: 2008-12-27 12:45 pm (UTC)They usually write the address as follows:
MY NAME
Ul. Krasnopresnenskaya
Dom 6, Korpus 5, Kvartira 10
Moskva (Moscow), Russia 111222
Russian Federation
Ul = street name
dom = house number
korpus = "block"
kvartira = apt number
You can write the address in Russian too, but as our experience shows, english-only is enough. BUT BE SURE TO WRITE THE ZIP CODE IN BIG, BOLD LETTERS