Mexican addresses carry a field many forms drop: the colonia (neighborhood), alongside a five-digit Código Postal and the state. Miss the colonia or the CP and local couriers struggle to route the parcel. Here is the correct order, a real example, and the common mistakes.
A Mexican label is recipient, the street with its number, the colonia, then the postal code with the city and state, then the country.
Juan Hernández personal or business recipientAv. Paseo de la Reforma 222 street name, then the exterior number (and interior number if any)Col. Juárez the neighborhood; required for local routing06600 Ciudad de México 5-digit CP first, then the city or municipalityCDMX the estado or its abbreviationMEXICO required for inbound international shipmentsThe Código Postal (CP) maps to a settlement and set of colonias, and is the core field Correos de México and private couriers route on.
The country-specific rules that generic autocomplete and single-line address fields tend to get wrong.
Mexican addresses include the colonia (for example Col. Juárez) between the street and the postal line. Couriers use it to route within a municipality, so a form without a colonia field produces incomplete addresses.
The exterior number (número exterior) identifies the building and the interior number (Int. 4) the unit. Both belong on the street line when present.
Postal codes keep their leading zero (06600). A field that strips it turns a valid Mexico City code into an invalid four-digit one.
The estado (or an abbreviation like CDMX, JAL, NL) follows the city. It should validate against the 32 federal entities.
Each of these passes a basic "is this field filled in" check but fails at the carrier, turning into a redelivery, a return, or an address correction fee.
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The national postal service and a common last-mile option. Routing is CP-driven, so a valid five-digit code and a colonia are the fields that matter most.
Major domestic couriers for ecommerce. They expect the full street, exterior and interior numbers, colonia, city, state, and CP for accurate delivery.
International carriers for inbound shipments. Include the country line; customs and corrections add fees and delays when the colonia or CP is missing.
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