In Paris the name and the surname of the addressee are written right at the top of the envelope. Next are the number of the house and the name of the street, zip code, city and country (if the letter is going abroad). The first figures of the zip code specify the department of France where the addressee lives. For Paris, the first two figures are always 75. The two last figures show the district number, and the figure in the middle is always zero or one, for example: 75018 is the 18th district of Paris, 75116 – 16th district etc. As a result the Parisian address looks like this:

Jean-Paul Belmondo
10, Avenue George Vd
75008 Paris
France

Range of French postage stamps