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As far as I can tell CiviCRM has only an address format for the United States.

It would be great if it could properly format mailing labels according to the country being sent to.

Rather than re-invent the wheel may I suggest you look at how UberCart (Drupal) has implemented this. 

Since many of us running Drupal utilize UberCart maybe CiviCRM could piggyback upon what has already been very nicely implemented.

Thanks for responding!
I'd love to contribute the code, but as it has already been very effectively done in UberCart my suggestion for the CivCRM team to take a look there first is probably the most effective way to either directly utilize or port the necessary info.  I'm not a PHP/SQL programmer but looking at the current tags in CiviCRM it appears to me that much of the groundwork has already been laid and it might just be a matter of incorporating the tables already generated for UberCart.  No reason to reinvent the wheel if it can be avoided.  I would hope it  worth ten minutes of your time to look, or if not you someone on the team that already has UberCart running. 

Alas as is CiviCRM is not "international" in its address label department and for us a stumbling block in trying to sell it to international non-profits.  I sincerely hope it can be fairly easily remedied.  I leave it to your skilled team to determine that.  Thanks for listening.