Which address is more American?

Question

Hey Friends, I'm from Xiamen.The following question is really annoying me for a while.
My company is located in an apartment of one building of a residential area named Seaview Park.
Which address below do you think is more idiomatic?

1, Seaview Park, 23 W. Xinglin Rd., Bldg.#5, Suite 505, Xiamen
2, 23 W. Xinglin Rd., Seaview Park, Bldg.#5, Suite 505, Xiamen
3, Suite 505, Bldg.#5, Seaview Park, 23 W. Xinglin Rd., Xiamen

Thanks for your time.

Thanks for all your rapid response.
Maybe I have to make some supplement.

Seaview Park is not a town or city's name(City is Xiamen), but something consist of
several apartment buildings.
And 23 W. Xinglin Road is its postal address, Building No.5 is just one of its buildings.

Of course, it's OK if I don't put it in when writing addresses, but in China the name of a residential quarter is easier to be recognized and remembered and people would usually mention the name when they talk about where they live.

Answer 1

sorry to make you life more complicated, but the most idiomatically correct written address in American format would be


Your Company's Name Here
Suite 505,
Bldg. # 5
23 W. Xinglin Rd.,
Xiamen

the version below would be second most likely


Your Company's Name Here
Suite 505, Bldg.#5,
23 W. Xinglin Rd.,
Xiamen



The residential area just would not be part of the basic address, though it would be how you would describe the location in conversation ( "we are located in Seaview Park")

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there used to be very clear rules to this- an address used to be like this:

person or company name at the top
street address
city, state
Country ( if needed)

in effect, the most general descriptor ( country) was at the bottom or at the end. The most specific descriptor ( like a person's name, the company) was at the top, or the beginning of the address.
The pattern ( the flow, the sequence) went from MOST specific at the beginning, to most general at the end.

Although the residential area would not be in most addresseses, if you followed that old rule, the format of your address would have the residential/business area just above or before the city name, like this:



Suite 505,
Bldg.#5,
23 W. Xinglin Rd.,
Seaview Park,
Xiamen
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having told you all that, it is only fair to tell you that for large shopping or business complexes in the US (such as World Trade Center or Montgomery Mall) the name of the complex might show up almost anywhere in the address. It is not standardized, either in terms of where to include it, or whether to include it at all.

in the US, IF the residential or business area was used, you would be most likely to see it in one of these 2 ways:


Suite 505, Bldg.#5,
23 W. Xinglin Rd.,
Seaview Park,
Xiamen

Seaview Park,
Suite 505, Bldg.#5,
23 W. Xinglin Rd.,
Xiamen

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sorry I can't give you a short, easy, simple, reliable answer.

Answer 2

2

Answer 3

just like NAQ said.

23 W.Xinglin RD. Bldg.#5, Suite 505
Seaview Park, Xiamen.

That would Be The Best WayTo Write It.

Answer 4

23 W Xinglin Rd, Bldg #5, Ste 505 Xiamen

Answer 5

Street addy,
Bldg#, Ste #
City, State, zip
Country (optional)

or:
Street addy, Ste #
City, State, zip
Country (optional)

So, neither of yours is really the way we would do it. If Seaview Park is only an area, what we would call a neighborhood, then leave it off. If it's a city or township, leave it. but, ti goes after everything specific about the building it goes to.

I live in the Los Angeles area. But I live in the city of Glendale, which is a suburb of Los Angeles. LA is what you would recognise, so that's where I'd tell you I'm from. But you would mail a letter to me at:
My Name
123 Anywhere St.
Glendale, California, 91202
USA (because you are sending from a diff country. Someone in the USA wouldn't put the country.)

Answer 6

23 W. Xinglin Rd.
Seaview Park, Bldg. #5 Ste. 505
Xiamen, State, Zip code

Answer 7

i think they're all wrong. american addresses are written as followed:

name
address and apartment number
city, state. zipcode

so the closest way you can put it is like


23 W. Xinglin Rd. Bldg. #5, Suite 505
Seaview Park, Xiamen

Answer 8

For writing an address in the American style, it goes like this:

Company Name
Street Address, with Suite Number
City, State, ZIP code

We don't normally include things like what area of the town the business is located.

Answer 9

Address # 2

Answer 10

Address 1 will make the most sense because it lists the place name first, then physical location, then building, then suite, then geographic location.

Thank you for your question.