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

[muzirian]

>
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 scope of area of service will be a very helpful subtag, may be we could
decide one which could be reused for other features(like taxi service) too.

cheers

Kelvin

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Tobias Wrede <list at tobias-wrede.de> wrote:

> Am 16.05.2017 um 12:20 schrieb Warin:
>
> On 16-May-17 06:01 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> I disagree.
>
> Shops frequently have counters etc for the public facing front end.
>
> Some offices do too... lawyers, accountants, insurance, etc... have a counter for customers to arrive at.
>
> Should all these things be lumped in to the key amenity??? I think not!
>
> Office is the correct place for it. *"A place predominantly selling services." *Nothing here about how it is configured.
>
> I generaly agree with an office being *"a place **predominantly selling
> services"* but maybe the definition is not specific enough. Let's have a
> look at some examples. Laundries, dry cleaners, hairdressers, massage
> shops, tattoo parlours, money lenders, lottery shops, ticket shops,
> copyshops all predominantly sell services, yet they are all classified
> being shops. Banks and post offices are amenities. I would say a courier
> outlet is much more like a laundry or a copyshop than like a lawyer or
> inscurance. On the other hand it is very close to a post office. So amenity
> and shop come to my mind way before an office.
>
> 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:*The Universal Postal Union is an international organisation
>  that coordinates postal policies among its 192 member countries.
> **One of the requirements of membership is that countries must nominate
> the "operator or operators officially designated to operate postal services" on their territory
> (**http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/questionnaireNotificationOfTheEntityResponsibleCircularLetterEn.pdf <http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/questionnaireNotificationOfTheEntityResponsibleCircularLetterEn.pdf>**). *
>
> Well, times are changing and I wouldn't use UPU for any definition on our
> side. Would you call a DHL parcel outlet a post office? DHL being a brand
> of Deutsche Post is the German operator officially designated to operate
> postal services as defined by UPU.
>
> While a post office seems to still be a certain institution in many
> countries in many others it is not. I cannot even recall when I have been
> to one the last time. All these other available places that have sprung up
> over the past years (couriers, postal shops inside shops, private mail
> operators etc.) take up most of the post office functions. So I am very
> reluctant to treat them any differently.
>
> Tobi
>
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