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I think that for letters it is to avoid names that overflow name tags

So it's better for them to send a mail to LongName LastName than to LongNameSomethingHere where the last name fell outside of the tag

And as your card shows, the full name is on the DB



Except you would expect that it's basic design to account for both very short names ("Li Pho") and reasonably long names ("Christopher Tannenbaum-Greenspan").

If your name tags don't work with slightly longer names, your name tags are broken, not the names.

OTOH these days I'm happy when receiving mail from the US if the address wasn't mutilated by converting Unicode to ASCII or using HTML escapes. Especially when ordering things to my company address, which has an ampersand in the company name and an umlaut in the city.


Your name tags are a function of the space allocated for the address on a letter (which is printed in bulk)

They're doing exactly what you mentioned in the first line, so big names are identifiable on letters with size limits for the address




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