Hello everyone.
I moved to an apartment building. There are many mailboxes in the lobby that do not necessarily correspond to the number of the apartment.
This example is from the La Poste site (Bien rédiger l’adresse) but I still don’t know what to do about the mailbox number.
Is the following the proper way to indicate my postal address?
Name
BAL 25
Street address
Postal code, City
Hi,
When I lived in apartments, we just put our name on the door of the letterbox, and for our address we didn’t specify a mailbox number or anything like that we’d just put the name of the immeuble and street address.
In Paris the building had a gardien whose job was to put the post in the right person’s mailbox. In the Côte d’Azur the building was much smaller so the postman / postwoman just did it themselves.
@Poj so you’re in an apartment. Presumaably you have a Lease or a Purchase document and this will surely show you what your address actually is…
Thanks everyone.
Incidentally I believe the usual abbreviation is BP (boîte postale) not BAL.
I lived in a flat in paris for 20 years and never knew the flat number. None of the flats had numbers on the doors, and just names on post box and interphone. Maybe it was in our purchase documents, but never had any reason to check.
@Poj did you finally find a document with your correct address??
Yes, I have the documents but all that is mentioned besides the street address is the lot number. Still no number on the apartment door itself. The best part is that the apartment number indicated on the electrical panel different is not the lot number and both numbers are different from the apartment number on the DPE report. I give up and will just use the street address. Thanks for everyone’s comments.
You will have a cadastral number which is the plot, and then a lot number. For utilities you will have a point of delivery number for each utility. Your syndic may assign different numbers to each apartment too.
Our flat was always 9-11 rue de… (which was two blocks) and to friends it was first staircase, first floor front. Many friends in Paris blocks were similar.
Perhaps modern blocks elsewhere are different.
