<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>The British terminology for this is a 'non-geographic postcode'. I suggest that this terminology might make a more appropriate general tag because <br>a) The purpose of the tag to indicate the non-geographic nature of the postcode, not the volume of post the address recieves<br></div>and<br></div>b) Special postcodes may be allocated for reasons other than sheer volume of mail. <br><br></div>Kind regards,<br><br></div>Adam<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 December 2017 at 12:42, Rainer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.elbing@gmx.de" target="_blank">r.elbing@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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recently I came across postal codes in POI addresses, which aren't the classic scheme addr:postcode & addr:city & addr:street & addr:housenumber. However it is a special postcode that is assigned to recipients that receive a big amount of post every day, typically big companies or authorities. This kind of postcode is used only together with addr:city and does not require street and housenumber. So to say the post company has a big sack for post to that special postcode, puts in all the letters that are addressed to it and delivers the sack to the recipient.<br>
After some discussion in the german user forum <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=60421" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.openstreetmap.or<wbr>g/viewtopic.php?id=60421</a> I want to propose a tag for this kind of postcode and would like to discuss it here in the tagging mailing list.<br>
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The proposal is: addr:postcode_major_recipient<br>
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It should be used on POIs, because it is an attribute of the company, authority or whatever, but not as an address of a building, because it is not assigned to such directly. Target is to have a separate tag for this kind of postcode to avoid a mix-up with the normal addr:postcode.<br>
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As I am not a native British English speaker, I have asked one and consulted the english page of the Deutsche Post. Reference: <a href="https://www.postdirekt.de/plzserver/PlzSearchServlet?lang=en_GB" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.postdirekt.de/plzs<wbr>erver/PlzSearchServlet?lang=<wbr>en_GB</a> -> goto More -> Find major recipient<br>
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Probably similar kinds of postcodes exist also in other post companies in other countries, so inputs about that are welcome.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Rainer<br>
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