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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16-May-17 06:01 PM, Martin
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<pre wrap="">On 16. May 2017, at 09:29, Tobias Wrede <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:list@tobias-wrede.de"><list@tobias-wrede.de></a> wrote:
May I suggest to focus the proposal on the frontend for now? Let's find a proper tagging for the place a customer goes to drop of his parcel, mail his letter, buy his stamp, collect his poste restante, do his banking staff or whatever. Let's worry about the backend (warehouses, hubs, sorting offices, ...) at a later time. It's complicated enough and the backend is suitably different from amenity/shop/office that worries us now.
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I would use amenity=courier for this, maybe a subtag which says something about scope (local, regional, national, international) and about kind of shipped goods (parcel, letters/documents, medicine, etc.).
The tag in the first proposal wasn't chosen badly, it was insufficiently defined. Office is not a good tag for the public facing frontend with counters etc.</pre>
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<pre>I disagree.</pre>
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Shops frequently have counters etc for the public facing front end.</pre>
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Some offices do too... lawyers, accountants, insurance, etc... have a counter for customers to arrive at. </pre>
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Should all these things be lumped in to the key amenity??? I think not!</pre>
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Office is the correct place for it. <i>"A place predominantly selling services." </i>Nothing here about how it is configured.</pre>
<pre>In another post Andrew Davidson has correctly identified 'Post Office' and
they are, I would, think to most people around the world viewed differently from couriers.
I will quote it here to save you looking:
<i>The Universal Postal Union is an international organisation
that coordinates postal policies among its 192 member countries.
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</i><i>One of the requirements of membership is that countries must nominate
the "operator or operators officially designated to operate postal services" on their territory
(</i><i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/questionnaireNotificationOfTheEntityResponsibleCircularLetterEn.pdf">http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/questionnaireNotificationOfTheEntityResponsibleCircularLetterEn.pdf</a></i><i>). </i>
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