New Zealand

Addressing formats
Include explanations of special New Zealand format variants such as the apartment number – house number format. Don’t forget to write NEW ZEALAND as the bottom line of the address when mailing from distant countries like the USA!

Mrs Brown [recipient]
Flat 2 [apartment number]
173 Park Road [house number + street name]
Johnsonville [suburb (only in some addresses)]
Wellington 6004 [city + postal code]

Rural Address Formats
Addresses are formatted differently away from cities and towns, on rural delivery routes.

John Sample [recipient]
Flat 2 [apartment number]
56 Maple Boulevard [house number + street name]
RD 2 ['RD' + rural delivery (route) number]
Wellington 6004 [postal town + postal code]
NEW ZEALAND [country]

Use ‘RD’ plus the RD number instead of a suburb.
‘RD’ has no spaces or punctuation (eg. ‘RD 1’ not ‘R D 1’).
Include the name of a registered occupant if the rural address doesn’t have a street number.
Don’t use floor levels in rural addresses.
Use the correct mail town, ie. the town name of the rural delivery route — this is not always the town closest to the address.

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