Hello,

In stead of creating an additional tag and thus an additional country 
specific rule,
why not using addr:full (or in the contact namespace if some prefer) to 
put this special addr that doesn't follow the standard country rule ?

Regards,
Marc

Le 17. 12. 17 à 22:25, Rainer a écrit :
> They are used together with addr:city. The combination aoff 
> addr:postcode_major_recipient and addr:city acts as an alias for 
> addr:postcode & addr:city & addr:street & addr:housenumber.
> 
> 
> Am 17.12.2017 21:22, schrieb Warin:
>> As they are not related to a physical address then why use the address 
>> space?
>> Possibly the contact space? contact:mail:postcode=*
>>
>> -----------------
>> I believe 1800 numbers cannot be used internationally, so I don't use 
>> the ISD codes, that OSM requests, with these.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18-Dec-17 12:36 AM, José G Moya Y. wrote:
>>> Do you mean PO box? In some cities, massive PO boxes have a special 
>>> Zip code/ postal code. It could be a property of the PObox address.
>>>
>>> Maybe an attribute at the POI is right, as POI use to list email 
>>> addresses and web addresses, which are independent from actual 
>>> physical address (as PO boxes are), also.
>>>
>>> National-wide phone numbers treated (such as +1-800-x in USA, 
>>> cellphones, "vocal nomad" numbers (+34-51-xx in Spain, if I remember 
>>> well)  are unlinked to physical addresses too. Are they directions 
>>> about how to use it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> El 17/12/2017 13:58, "Tom Pfeifer" <t.pfei...@computer.org 
>>> <mailto:t.pfei...@computer.org>> escribió:
>>>
>>>     As these postcodes are kind of a virtual address that is not tied
>>>     to a particular pysical location, my opinion would be _not to add
>>>     them to OSM_, which is a geo database and not primarily a post
>>>     code reference database.
>>>
>>>     Typically for those companies in DE, there is an additional
>>>     physical address which has a different postcode for the street
>>>     address, which is regularly tagged on the physical location.
>>>
>>>     tom
>>>
>>>     On 17.12.2017 13:42, Rainer wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi all,
>>>
>>>         recently I came across postal codes in POI addresses, which
>>>         aren't the classic scheme addr:postcode & addr:city &
>>>         addr:street & addr:housenumber. However it is a special
>>>         postcode that is assigned to recipients that receive a big
>>>         amount of post every day, typically big companies or
>>>         authorities. This kind of postcode is used only together with
>>>         addr:city and does not require street and housenumber. So to
>>>         say the post company has a big sack for post to that special
>>>         postcode, puts in all the letters that are addressed to it
>>>         and delivers the sack to the recipient.
>>>         After some discussion in the german user forum
>>>         https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=60421
>>>         <https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=60421> I
>>>         want to propose a tag for this kind of postcode and would
>>>         like to discuss it here in the tagging mailing list.
>>>
>>>         The proposal is:  addr:postcode_major_recipient
>>>
>>>         It should be used on POIs, because it is an attribute of the
>>>         company, authority or whatever, but not as an address of a
>>>         building, because it is not assigned to such directly. Target
>>>         is to have a separate tag for this kind of postcode to avoid
>>>         a mix-up with the normal addr:postcode.
>>>
>>>         As I am not a native British English speaker, I have asked
>>>         one and consulted the english page of the Deutsche Post.
>>>         Reference:
>>>         https://www.postdirekt.de/plzserver/PlzSearchServlet?lang=en_GB
>>>         <https://www.postdirekt.de/plzserver/PlzSearchServlet?lang=en_GB>
>>>         -> goto More -> Find major recipient
>>>
>>>         Probably similar kinds of postcodes exist also in other post
>>>         companies in other countries, so inputs about that are welcome.
>>>
>>>
>>>         Best regards,
>>>         Rainer
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