[Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - (office=courier)"

[Tobias Wrede]

Am 25.04.2017 um 05:13 schrieb Marc Gemis:
> I still believe that for the feature at hand it is enough to have
> amenity=courier, just so we can distinguish it from the traditional
> postal_office. Do we need subtags for courier yet ? I do not think so.
>
> We are mapping supermarkets/convenience stores which offer different
> products/services for more than 10 years without subtags to
> differentiate between hypermarkets, discounters, supermarkets that
> offer a services of a licensed butcher, etc. Any attempt on adding
> detail to this was seen as unneeded for OSM, yet we demand this level
> of detail from a 1.0 proposal for courier services ?
>
If we are mapping supermarkets with different services and that is 
enough why do we need to distinguish between a "traditional post office" 
and a courier?

 From reading the posts to this list I understand countries like Japan 
and UK still have a very distinct separation between the two. OK. If 
there is the Royal Mail and the Japan Post they can be tagged as 
operator or brand to make that clear then in my opinion.

But in many countries, including Germany there are so many shades of 
gray between a full service traditional post office and a pure parcel 
drop-off/pick up service I wouldn't know how to draw the line. All the 
"traditional" post offices are couriers as well. And they are banks 
("Postbank" in Germany, which belongs to Deutsche Bank nowadays). On the 
extreme side there are offices of different postal services fully 
dedicated to letter related services, there are couriers (various 
companies) and there are Postbank "financial centers". And then there is 
everything between, as stand-alone shops or embedded into a convenience 
store, kiosk, bakery etc.

With this proposal how would I tag an amenity that sells stamps, offers 
registered mail, receives parcels but does not accept commercial mass 
mail and does not offer banking services? It's not a "traditional post 
office".

Tobi