sede

08:27 May 23, 2014 

"sede" "sedi" "loro sedi" and spaced out like this: "S E D E"
A useful discussion:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1857341

"Quando [...] la lettera è indirizzata ad un altro ufficio dello stesso ente (o azienda), al posto dell'indirizzo si scrive "sede", cioè l'indirizzo del destinatario è lo stesso del mittente".

16:20 May 22, 2014 

while we are lacking a crucial piece of information. Just why did the author feel the need to write "sede" there. Normally you would never put "sede" as the bottom line of a postal address on an envelope. Without that information, this is just a guessing game.

15:19 May 22, 2014 

...of course, my example from 2011 did give the street address!! Today's example (now in 2014) just gave name and department, so it may well have been "by hand". But let's not go there.
- We could also use "On Site" as it is nice and vague.
- You did say yourself "HEAD" is a bit too much of a commitment. What if it's a regional office.
- And what about eliminating it altogether, like Spettabile, Chiarissimo, and Egregio...?

14:22 May 22, 2014 

address on a letter to somebody in the same building? This is so unusual for a letter that there is no standard practice for it. Sede is clearly the headquarters or head office...

07:53 May 22, 2014 

These are my latest findings (as a proofreader). So it may mean that the letter was delivered to a person in the same building as the author. Can any Italian native speakers out there confirm?

09:41 Jun 2, 2011 

09:37 Jun 2, 2011 

Tom, you rule! *ROTFLMAO* // Sorry. As per the asker's request, I'm ending this game here, but would like to point out that my first post was a real discussion entry to the question which probably needs some attention.

Simon, do you have any other clue about what kind of company this may be? One that's likely to have a headquarters + many branches in other towns, or a small one that refers to 'sede' as their only business address? I think this is the main point we need to clarify. Thanks.

09:36 Jun 2, 2011 

Yes, it does. I'm not a big fan of acronyms, but there's a limit of 1200 characters to the discussion entries and I had to make do with the little space I had, so I used that instead of lenghtier version. ;)

09:35 Jun 2, 2011 

AFAIK it does stand for "in my humble opinion"

:)

09:31 Jun 2, 2011 

does it stand for IN MY HUMBLE OPINION?
I've seen this acronym for a while

09:06 Jun 2, 2011 

The answer very much depends on what is really meant here by the word 'sede', which IMHO is too generic a term to understand what it stands for without any further information.
I'm pretty sure it's not a 'sede legale' (registered office) because it's not specified here, and the 'sede legale' is often the office of a 'commercialista', who hardly ever shares the same address with the company and can be in a different town/city altogether. Whether this 'sede' is the 'casa madre' that needs to be differenciated from other local offices remains to be seen.