Suite (address)

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A suite is the location of a business within a shopping mall or office building. The suite's number also serves as a sort of address within an address for purposes of mail delivery and pickup.

Some commercial mail receiving agencies may also use the 'suite' designator to indicate a company's private post-office box by listing it as a suite rather than a post-office box, though by order of the United States Postal Inspection Service, most of the major CMRA companies such as The UPS Store/Mail Boxes Etc. have drawn this down as the result of mail fraud where unscrupulous businesses who count on their targets not researching their addresses market a post-office box 'suite' or virtual office as an actual office location with personnel.{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-03-26/suite-scams|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630104657/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-03-26/suite-scams|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 30, 2012|title=Suite Scams|date=26 March 2008|publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek|accessdate=1 September 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://wafreepress.org/40/post.html|title=Post Office Cries Fraud, Public Cries Foul; Private mail station box holders face rule changes almost nobody wants|last=Nufer|first=Doug|date=July–August 1999|work=(Seattle) Washington Free Press|accessdate=1 September 2014}}

In the US, suite can be abbreviated "STE" or "Ste" in postal addresses.[https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Addressing-Mailpieces Addressing Mailpieces], USPS.com