Re: [Tagging] "Feature Proposal - RFC - (office=courier)"

[John Willis]

Javbw
> On Apr 24, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Tobias Wrede <l...@tobias-wrede.de> wrote:
> 
> In my area in Germany only the big main "Deutsche Post" offices of a city 
> have survived.

This is true in the US - I have maybe 3 post offices I can think of in 4-5 KM 
of my old house in San Diego.  

I went to google maps on my phone and set the zoom to the smallest map where 
the scale still shows 2KM as the legend of the scale (roughly 10x20km) on a 
large phone. 

In La Mesa & El Cajon, I had 7 post offices. In Kiryu & Omama, I had 17. There 
is one about every KM downtown and one every 4 KM in the more rural area. 

So distribution is going to vary wildly by country. 

This might make it more important where there are fewer ones - if I am looking 
for a post office in particular in the US - I will have a more limited 
selection, so showing the closest one is most important. In Japan, unless you 
are in a very rural/uninhabited area, drive for 10 minutes in any direction and 
you will hit a post office along a secondary road. 

Javbw 
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