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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 20.03.2020 um 16:38 schrieb Paul
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 13:50, Tobias Wrede <<a
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<p>I don't get your point here. Either someone wanted a
package delivered to his residence. In that case they
gave the wrong address information to the delivery guys.</p>
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<div>Around here, the delivery guys get it wrong even when
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<div>is addressed to the PO box and then the delivery guys do
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<div>getting it from the PO Box to the physical location, and
get that wrong.</div>
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<p>It seems I have a different understanding of the concept PO box.
Around here if you have a PO box mail is delivered there and you
go yourself pick it up, convenient for people who are rarely at
home or get huge amounts of mail. In more rural areas I have seen
letter boxes in one central point of a several km2 area or a
box/bag at the next major road where mail is delivered to. Again
you go there yourself to pick it up. <br>
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<p>I must admit I fail to understand your kind of PO box. One
delivery company delivers to the PO box (which address/location is
known) and then some other guys pick the mail up there and take it
to your home which they don't know anything about? Sounds strange
to me.<br>
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<p>Regardless of type of address shouldn't a shipment not always
have the receiver's name on, too? <br>
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<p>But as long as we tag phone numbers, websites, fax
numbers etc. I cannot see why we should discourage it,
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<div>If we're just mapping things that a paper map shows, we
wouldn't map post/zip</div>
<div>codes either. In some cases this other information, even
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<div>so people WILL map it. It's better we come up with a way
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<div>have all those people come up with their own way.</div>
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<p>I don't say we should do as a paper map creator does. I see why
we map phone numbers: I am in an unfamiliar area, look for a
restaurant on the map, find one and then call ahead to see if they
can accommodate me. If it's the day before I might look up the
email address and drop them an email. But I see really rare cases
where I would find a business on a map and then send a letter or
parcel there. But as I said I'm fine with people tagging delivery
a addresses deviating from physical addresses if they want to. I
just should go in the contact name space in my opinion.</p>
<p>Tobias<br>
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