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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 27 Feb 2021, at 16:04, Georg <georg2016 at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> 
> These services are not reserved to "more or less state operated" post
> offices. Several are offered by a range of private companies on a global
> scale


these are regulated services which AFAIK none of the other „postal service providers“ offer, yes, Western Union like money transfer services, or banks, offer such services as well (indeed a German or Italian post office is also a bank, typically).
In Italy, there are situations where you need to send money to public administration accounts at a post office, e.g. for driving license renewal, which you cannot do at alternative postal service providers, and while I am no expert on postal services, I would bet there are also in Germany services which require you do them at Deutsche Post because non of their competitors offers them. Maybe these are just leftovers from their former monopoly position, which will get leveled in the future and we are still in a transition period, but currently we are not yet there (in Italy, likely in Germany as well, where I am not up to date)

Cheers Martin