"Matthew Endo" <matt@gol.com> wrote in message
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> Steve <steve_h@dsl.pipex.net> wrote:
>
> > I have recently been chided for not putting the full name on a parcel
> > to a person's home address. I have been told that without the family
> > name it will not be delivered!
> >
> > I wrote Yukako Chan: Yukako being the given name and Chan being the
> > familiar suffix.
>
> I wonder what happens to the mail to people in Japan with the
> family/last name "Chan" at your post office?

They would be Chinese and so, of course, the post office wouldn't care so
much about whether they received their mail properly.

Jeff