2017-05-15 16:49 GMT+02:00 Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com>:
> It may be a difficult idea for a German - I understand that you really > don't have courier offices over there separate from Bundespost since DHL > was nationalized - but in the US, we have a common type of shop, with names > like "FedEx Store" (some are still branded FedEx/Kinko's), "UPS Store", > "Mail Boxes Etc.", that offer only, or mostly, parcel services (most have > related services like photocopying). actually in Germany as in Italy there are a lot of different "big" courier services besides Deutsche Post/DHL and Poste Italiane (federal Bundespost is long gone, was split into several parts and privatized 25 years ago), like UPS, FedEx, TNT, Hermes, GLT, Bartolini, ... There are also 20 or so "Mailboxes Etc." in Rome. That was never my point, thing is, there are also lots of very small courier services (like John wrote, a guy and his bike) and a lot of in-between businesses. We also have to distinguish between internal logistics centers (sorting, etc.) and public facing "shops", and possibly combinations of both, and other businesses like shops/petrol stations etc. offering courier services besides others (i.e. it will be a property in OSM). "Recently" there are also new couriers which specialize in sending letters (as opposed to parcels), e.g. Pin AG in Germany https://www.pin-ag.de/ who have their own stamps, or "Posta Express" in Italy http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3803189115 http://www.postaexpress.it/ All this said, there are even more services traditional post offices offer, like banking (sometimes/often), in Italy this includes special kind of very common money transfer (is used to pay bills like telephone, water, electricity and more) which is also offered by third parties as a service (mostly tobacco shops do it, it's called "Bollettino"), and you can usually also put money there on debit cards issued by the post office ("Poste pay"). And you can send money to people via the post (not via a bank account, but with name and address, and the postman will deliver it. "vaglia postale"). You can also get insurances at the post office. In Germany you can use the post office for identification purposes ("Post Ident"). These are just a few examples that come to mind, and surely not an exhaustive list of available services, but they are good arguments to distinguish between "real" post offices and other courier offices which don't offer all those features, so I am not in the "we don't need a new tag" boat. I'm rather in the "we need more" section. It is correct that "perfect is the enemy of the good", but if you don't even try to make it good, it will very likely be bad ;-) Cheers, Martin
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