Correct Street Address for delivery

Dear Brett,

Here is the correct address:

House number, Le Van Sy Street, Ward...., District 3, Ho Chi Minh City

Your friend's Vietnam' phone number and his/her name: ........



Cheer,

Bella Nguyen

Forget the 'personal delivery', have is sent to YOU c/o the COURIERS OFFICE.

Likely it will be held in Customs, anyway, for a short period (14 days) before being sent back.

Note: Most all importations in VN are subject to 100% duty. Be smart - use a carrier that allows you a Third Bag (at a price) such as Eva, Cathay, etc.

And review what you are bringing. Clothing is cheap here. TP HCM weather is warm/hot to warm/hot+rain.

The usual way to write it (in the South) is street number / building number. So if you lived at 53/9 Le Van Sy, Q3, TP HCM, your neighbors in the alley might be 53/8 and 53/10. If you walk out to the main road, you might find yourself standing next to 51 Le Van Sy and 55 Le Van Sy.

[Of course, the numbering is somewhat inconsistent, so you may actually find yourself next to 53/112 and 53/63 in the alley, and the shops neighboring the alley might be 53D, 53F, 53bis.]

This is apparently reversed in the North, just to keep you on your toes.

Of course there's nothing wrong with being explicit, and writing it as số 9, hẻm 53 Le Van Sy, Q3 TP HCM (number 9, alley 53).

If it's valuable, regardless of where you're sending it, get it tracked, and as Jaitch said, expect to pay extreme import duties. I've not had any problems having all sorts of rubbish delivered to my address, but it usually arrives as an invitation to go pick it up from parcel post on Hai Ba Trung (and pay the tax).

As a side note, there is at least some consistency. If you lived on an alley that came off the aforementioned address, your address might be 53/9/27 Le Van Sy, with each subsequent number taking you further away from the main road.

*Please note that these addresses are all fictional. I have no idea which alleys lie on Le Van Sy, although I do know there's a bloody lot of them - the place is riddled with some of the most convoluted alleys in Saigon*.

Thanks for that, great detail on the address so opefully I get it right.  The company I am using actually ships it as excess baggage and it is door to door so I think that as baggage it doesn't get taxed but guess will see what happens.