atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

Hi Ros

Can you do me a favour if you get the time - can you dig out your old AP
style guide and see if it says anything about letter layout?  I think we may
have found the culprit. 1970s would be about right for these teachers.

Christine



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Subject: atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

Good point about address layout, Daryl!

The link didn't work for me, but if others are interested, go to the  
Australia Post homepage (http://www.auspost.com.au) and put Address  
Format in the search box.

ros

PS:  Speaking of fossilesque matters, I still have my old hard-copy of  
the Australia Post Style guide from the 1970s - the kind that had the  
manual updates stuffed in front instead of being filed in the correct  
section etc.     Memories...   :)
__

Ros Byrne
WORDS THAT WORK
Training & Coaching in Workplace Communication
http://www.canberra.edu.au/pmp/program/courses/words-work




On 28/10/2008, at 7:23 AM, Daryl Colquhoun wrote:

>> Question 1 - Does anyone know where I can find Australian Standards  
>> for the layout and presentation of letters (correspondence).
>
> Interestingly enough, the German standard relating to this very  
> thing was for several decades DIN's (German Institute for  
> Standardization) best-seller. (I learned this by looking at the  
> display at the DIN's headquarters; I can't find a web reference.) So  
> naturally I thought Australia would have one. However, enquiries of  
> SAI Global, including a phone call, suggest that there is no such  
> standard. I suggest that you trawl their website yourself and ring  
> them, to double-check.
>
> I note Brian's sad comments (quaintly phrased in terms of an  
> obsolete unit of measure). Still, if want to have a go as  
> browbeating fossilesque colleagues, you could refer to Australia  
> Post. They don't make standards but they are explicit on at least  
> how to set out the address; see
http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0,1467,CH2092 
> ~MO19,00.html.
>
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