[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - shop as post-partner

[Robin Burek]

> My apologies for using the wrong term.

No problem, I was just little bit confused.

>
> What I was getting at is how many people, when talking about letter boxes
> and post offices mean any company other than Deutsche Post?  Here, "post"
> means the Post Office/Royal Mail combination (which used to be a single
> operation until tentative steps were taken towards privatization with
> the end
> goal of asset stripping).

These are interesting differences between countries. Here "Post" is used
as a short form for Deutsche Post AND for the sum of all postal services
or postal service providers. Postal services also include the dispatch
of "normal weight" parcels (usually <20 to 30 kg).

>
> Since you couldn't tell me where people would direct me if I asked for
> the nearest Postamt, maybe you could tell me where you would direct
> somebody asking for the Postamt.
>
I would direct somebody to an post-parnter-store of the local postal
service provider "biber post".
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