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

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 13:47, Robin Burek <robin.burek at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 15.02.2021 um 14:09 schrieb Paul Allen:
>
> That's the problem I have with your proposal.  There are differences (the
> contract
> between Royal Mail and the Post Office expires next year so we may or may
> not
> move closer to what you have).
>
> Hm... Is there really a problem here in my proposal or in the English
> language ...?
>
Both, maybe.  Now you've clarified matters, it appears that all your postal
service companies are considered to be equals (or near equals) with
Deutsche Post.  This is not (yet) the situation in the UK.  So if you
consider Foo Post and Bar Post the equivalent of Deutsche Post then
why not map them as sub-post offices?  Or why not re-tag all German
sub-post offices using this scheme?

> I know from the USA that this is also summarized there (at least that's
> what I got from friends, so no general statement either). Wikipedia also
> speaks of: "The mail or post is a system for physically transporting
> postcards, letters, and parcels." [1]
>
Yes, but until the last few decades in many countries it was a government
monopoly.  In the UK we still make the distinction between the Post Office
and postmen/women on the one hand and "those crappy courier companies
that keep losing my parcels" on the other.

What would be your suggestion for a clearer naming?
>
What I thought about was: change postal_partner to service:postal or
> something (see my proposal Case 2) analogical to service:vehicels or
> service:bicycle
>

Postal_partner was not a good choice because it led me to misread that
the courier companies were the partners (obviously there is no need to
specify that the shop is a partner because you're tagging the shop).  But
it's the "postal" part that is the problem for me, because in the UK most
people would not interpret that as meaning delivery services by couriers.

-- 
Paul
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