Adding info to a shipping label

[southern*sweet*tea]

I have a package going to a very prestigious university.  The address is too long for the shipping label.

The buyer's address is:

Buyer Name

Prestigious University  Dept History of Science and Tech, XXXXXX  Hall XXX
xxxx N. ABC  Street
Anytown, State 21xxx

I have modified it to:

Buyer Name

XXXXXX  Hall XXX

xxxx N. ABC  Street
Anytown, State 21xxx-xxxx

This is the only format  I could get the USPS to accept.

Can I, or do I need to, write in Prestigious University Dept History of Science and Tech and if so where?

Disclaimer (cue Dragnet music): All names and addresses have been changed to protect the innocent.

[n2knowledge]

You have to hand write it and get the post office to mail it - any amount greater than 4 lines Paypal and on-line postage websites will not allow.  I found it was just easier to hand write everything in - then to skip a building number, a PO Box etc.  It got to the place okay - skipped out on shipping discount though.

[sharingtheland]

Underneath the mailing label, just write on the box/package:

Attention:  Department of History and Science Tech 

For such a Prestigious University, the local post office recognizes the address.

[southern*sweet*tea]

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@sharingtheland wrote:

Underneath the mailing label, just write on the box/package:

Attention:  Department of History and Science Tech 

For such a Prestigious University, the local post office recognizes the address.

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I was thinking as much, but just wanted to be sure. I've never come across an address I couldn't get to fit   Yes, I'm sure the local PO would know the address.

[nawlinsron2]

The U should be full of smart people...surely whoever receives it will know how to track 'em down...:)

[missjen831]

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@sharingtheland wrote:

Underneath the mailing label, just write on the box/package:

Attention:  Department of History and Science Tech 

For such a Prestigious University, the local post office recognizes the address.

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From my experience working in voter registration, that doesn't necessarily mean the PO can/will deliver it though. College students aren't too....bright...when it comes to receiving mail at school lol. I spent a lot of time calling college kids who didn't know their mailing address or who would use the university address. We had cheat sheets so we could look up mailing addresses of the buildings when the student only provided their hall name but we also needed room numbers and some halls have physical addresses and mailing addresses and surprisingly, a lot of college student would give the physical address which cannot receive mail. If they didn't provide a phone number or we couldn't reach them, we had to send a letter to the address provided and they always came back undeliverable as addressed and we couldn't register them to vote 😞

[argusmike]

SST,

This would be fixed if eBay required buyers to supply their addresses in a way that fit into the area provided by the eBay label printing app. As eBay will never do something so simple and logical, sellers end up hacking buyers' address labels, at significant jeopardy to everyone.

When I have to do it I download the label (there's an option for "print to pdf") and read it in into Photoshop. Then I can usually fit something reasonable into the allotted space using the Photoshop "Text" command.

I do this routinely to add non-USA buyers' phone numbers to the mailing label, which don't show up any other way (as far as I can tell).

Mike