Capital city instead of Suburb

[mk31341]

I bought an item a few days ago and only just realised i wrote my capital city instead of my actual suburb. Will i still be able to recieve the item? Apprently it has already been shipped, 

[pennyforum14]

I expect it will get there as long as you gave the correct postcode.    If the suburb was the only thing missing they would figure it out form the street and postcode.   My mum once got a letter addressed to Aunty Jean with just the town name, no street address, but because the postcode was correct it got there fine.  Small town, Postmistress knew my mum.

[twyngwyn]

It depends whether you included the correct postcode, and the name of the street is NOT COMMON

[daydreams_12]

If you paid by Paypal (hope you did), the buyer is obliged to send to the address in the Paypal notification.  You could contact the seller from drop down menu on purchase and ask where it has been sent.  If you only have CapitalCity on your Ebay/Paypal regristration I doubt that your item will arrive.  If you paid by any other means, you really need to contact seller.

[cathyjoyjoy]

In addition to what others have suggested here, you also need to check your addresses in both ebay and Paypal for future purchases.

[davidc4430]

you have bought items on ebay 11 times i suspect those have arrived ok. cant see why this one wont regardless of you thinking it wont. seller gets your address from the order details after the sale. that has your registered address with ebay on it.

[davewil1964]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

you have bought items on ebay 11 times i suspect those have arrived ok. cant see why this one wont regardless of you thinking it wont. seller gets your address from the order details after the sale. that has your registered address with ebay on it.

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Seller gets the valid address from the PAYPAL notification.

A buyer can choose to have an item sent to any address they choose at checkout.

Their registered eBay address may or may not be the one. NEVER rely on the eBay address, especially before payment. ie from the sale notification.

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@pennyforum14 wrote:

I expect it will get there as long as you gave the correct postcode.    If the suburb was the only thing missing they would figure it out form the street and postcode.   My mum once got a letter addressed to Aunty Jean with just the town name, no street address, but because the postcode was correct it got there fine.  Small town, Postmistress knew my mum.

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I saw exactly the same thing happen years ago (late 80's), but it was in the city. The Christmas card was addressed to "Aunty Lyn c/- Merewether". No street name, no postcode. Merewether is an inner suburb of Newcastle which at that point was Australia's largest non capital city. The weird part was, the senders twin sent a card the day before and it arrived 3 days after the poorly addressed one! To this day, I still don't know how that card arrived. The recipient didn't know anyone at the local PO, because that was the first thing I asked her. There was also no return address on the back so they couldn't even match the name that way.

[phorum_junkie*]

Many years ago my sister received a letter that was just addressed to her nickname, Edinburgh. A rather large city, capital of Scotland. Unlikely anyone else would have the same nickname though..

It was back when she was a student and had worked at Christmas in the Royal Mail sorting office. Obviously she made an impresion