Suite (address) explained

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.[1] [2]

In the US, suite can be abbreviated "STE" or "Ste" in postal addresses.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Suite Scams. https://web.archive.org/web/20120630104657/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-03-26/suite-scams. dead. June 30, 2012. 26 March 2008. Bloomberg Businessweek. 1 September 2014.
  2. News: Post Office Cries Fraud, Public Cries Foul; Private mail station box holders face rule changes almost nobody wants. Nufer. Doug. July–August 1999. (Seattle) Washington Free Press. 1 September 2014.
  3. https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Addressing-Mailpieces Addressing Mailpieces