On 16-May-17 06:01 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

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On 16. May 2017, at 09:29, Tobias Wrede <l...@tobias-wrede.de> wrote:

May I suggest to focus the proposal on the frontend for now? Let's find a 
proper tagging for the place a customer goes to drop of his parcel, mail his 
letter, buy his stamp, collect his poste restante, do his banking staff or 
whatever. Let's worry about the backend (warehouses, hubs, sorting offices, 
...) at a later time. It's complicated enough and the backend is suitably 
different from amenity/shop/office that worries us now.

I would use amenity=courier for this, maybe a subtag which says something about 
scope (local, regional, national, international) and about kind of shipped 
goods (parcel, letters/documents, medicine, etc.).

The tag in the first proposal wasn't chosen badly, it was insufficiently 
defined. Office is not a good tag for the public facing frontend with counters 
etc.

I disagree.

Shops frequently have counters etc for the public facing front end.

Some offices do too... lawyers, accountants, insurance, etc... have a counter 
for customers to arrive at.

Should all these things be lumped in to the key amenity??? I think not!

Office is the correct place for it./"A place predominantly selling services." 
/Nothing here about how it is configured.

In another post Andrew Davidson has correctly identified 'Post Office' and
they are, I would, think to most people around the world viewed differently 
from couriers.

I will quote it here to save you looking:
/The Universal Postal Union is an international organisation that coordinates postal policies among its 192 member countries. ////One of the requirements of membership is that countries must nominate the "operator or operators officially designated to operate postal services" on their territory (//http://www.upu.int/uploads/tx_sbdownloader/questionnaireNotificationOfTheEntityResponsibleCircularLetterEn.pdf//). /

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