<div dir="ltr">On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 12:20, Robin Burek <<a href="mailto:robin.burek@gmx.de">robin.burek@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>What I was getting at is how many people, when talking
about letter boxes</div>
<div>and post offices mean any company other than Deutsche
Post? Here, "post"</div>
<div>means the Post Office/Royal Mail combination (which used
to be a single</div>
<div>operation until tentative steps were taken towards
privatization with the end</div>
<div>goal of asset stripping).<br>
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<p><span lang="en"><span><span>These
are interesting differences between countries.</span></span>
<span><span>Here
"Post" is used as a short form for Deutsche Post AND for the
sum of all postal services or postal service providers.</span></span>
<span><span>Postal
services also include the dispatch of "normal weight"
parcels (usually <20 to 30 kg).</span></span></span></p></div></blockquote>That's the problem I have with your proposal. There are differences (the contract</div><div class="gmail_quote">between Royal Mail and the Post Office expires next year so we may or may not</div><div class="gmail_quote">move closer to what you have). Right now I can see people in the UK</div><div class="gmail_quote">wanting to tag our shops with collection points for various couriers and</div><div class="gmail_quote">they'll do so using your tags, confusing things considerably here. But</div><div class="gmail_quote">in Germany it might confuse things to change the key names, introducing</div><div class="gmail_quote">a distinction that doesn't exist.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The real world is messy. :(</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>