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

Paul Allen pla16021 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 13:40:18 UTC 2021


On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 13:10, Robin Burek <robin.burek at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 16.02.2021 um 13:42 schrieb Paul Allen:
>
> To handle postal services in a store (often only a short option and not
> the full programm) aren't post offices. That is a store, that supports (a
> selection) of postal services. A bank can not be a post office but can
> handle (in Germany) postal services.
> I really want to find a consensus.... but you're not making it easy for
> me here ...
>
What you describe in terms of function does not sound like a post office to
me.
Post offices have legal requirements in the UK.  What you describe in terms
of
function sounds very much like
https://www.collectplus.yodel.co.uk/click-and-collect
Shops offering those services are not considered post offices in the UK.

And yet you insist these "not post offices" are post offices.  I asked you
where you would direct somebody asking for the nearest Postamt
and you said you would direct that person to one of these services
rather than Deutsche Post.  You tell me that the service providers
offer all the same services that Deutsche Post does.

Either these are post offices or they are not.  If they are post offices
then map them as such.  If they are not post offices then find some
different tag name that does not have "post" or "postal," Because
in some countries the partner will not offer a full range of postal
services in any location, not just that particular one.  Those partners
will merely be couriers.

That said, your insistence that these things be mapped as
attributes rather than POIs baffles me.  The information will
not be visible to most data consumers so may as well not be
there.  If I can't see it on the map, it doesn't exist as far as
I'm concerned because I'll never know it's there.

-- 
Paul
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