Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!passion.nalgo.co.jp!news.moat.net!prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr27.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!9a2493fe!not-for-mail From: "necoandjeff" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: <1gg6o1r.ns9pyt1rvrm02N@yahoobb219000172015.bbtec.net> Subject: Re: Japan Postal System - Addressing Lines: 19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.203.69.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr27.news.prodigy.com 1088550133 ST000 63.203.69.150 (Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:02:13 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:02:13 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: SCSYQN_@OPTYBU\[NCOF_W\@PJ_^PBQLGPQRZ_MHEQR@ETUCCNSKQFCY@TXDX_WHSVB]ZEJLSNY\^J[CUVSA_QLFC^RQHUPH[P[NRWCCMLSNPOD_ESALHUK@TDFUZHBLJ\XGKL^NXA\EVHSP[D_C^B_^JCX^W]CHBAX]POG@SSAZQ\LE[DCNMUPG_VSC@VJM Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:02:13 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:14937 "Matthew Endo" wrote in message news:1gg6o1r.ns9pyt1rvrm02N@yahoobb219000172015.bbtec.net... > Steve 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