Uzbek addresses run recipient to region and end with a six-digit postal index that most Western checkout forms never ask for. Miss the index or the viloyat and O'zbekiston Pochtasi routes the parcel by hand or returns it. Here is the correct structure, a real example, the postal index rules, and the mistakes that trigger failed deliveries.
An Uzbek label runs recipient, optional company, the street with its house number, then the six-digit postal index and city on one line, then the region (viloyat), then the country. Carriers like EMS and DHL expect this order on a romanized label.
Aziz Karimov personal or business recipientNamuna MChJ optional, above the street lineAmir Temur ko'chasi 15 street (ko'chasi), then the house number100000 Toshkent 6-digit index first, then the city or settlementToshkent shahri one of 12 viloyats, the Republic of Karakalpakstan, or Tashkent cityUZBEKISTAN required for inbound international shipmentsThe postal index (pochta indeksi) is Uzbekistan's core routing field. The first two digits identify the region, the next two the district or city, and the last two the delivering post office, so all six digits are needed to pin a parcel to a specific office.
The country-specific rules that generic autocomplete and single-line address fields tend to get wrong.
Uzbekistan's current index is six digits, for example 100000. Five-digit entries and legacy Soviet codes both fail modern sorting, and the leading digits carry the region, so a truncated code loses the routing entirely.
The region (viloyat) sits below the city and disambiguates places that share a name across the country. Tashkent city and the Republic of Karakalpakstan are separate first-level units, not viloyats, so treat each as its own region value.
Addresses appear in both Latin (ko'chasi) and Cyrillic (ะบััะฐัะธ). Keep one script per label; mixing the two, or dropping the o' and g' characters, causes mismatches in carrier and postal systems.
Streets are labelled ko'cha (street), larger ones shoh ko'cha (avenue), and neighbourhoods are mahalla. The house number follows the street name, and an apartment (xonadon) follows the building.
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.
10000) breaks automated sorting and forces manual handling or return.702100-style index no longer matches the current six-digit system and misroutes the parcel.15 Amir Temur ko'chasi reverses the expected street-then-number order.How the major carriers handle Uzbekistan addresses, and what your label needs to satisfy each one.
The national postal operator and last-mile partner for most inbound international mail. Routing is driven by the six-digit index, so validate it against the city and region first.
The express arm of the national post for domestic and international parcels. It expects the full index, city and viloyat to reach the correct post office.
International carriers for inbound shipments. Include the country line and keep one script; they charge for address corrections when the index or region forces a manual fix.
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