On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 19:42, <amilopow...@u-cloud.ch> wrote: > > Paul: > I agree with you that this should be an attribute not a tag to use on > every till. However we can't foresee how mappers will use it. >
Your wiki page says it's not a standalone tag. And if carto co-operate by not rendering it, then it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Even less of a problem if editors support it as an optional property of shops. Philip (off topic): > Yes there should be a tag for those mini post offices. They spread all > over Switzerland. Do you mind to prepare something? Recently I tried to map > a DHL collection point and failed because amenity=post_office is definitely > wrong. > If I understood him correctly, Philip wasn't talking about collection points, and especially not DHL collection points. Post Offices in the UK are complicated. The following is a rough guide with many simplifications. Each town had a head post office, staffed by civil servants, and which did no business not related to the Post Office (which many years ago also ran the phone system in the UK, apart from in the city of Kingston upon Hull). There were often many sub post offices in a town, located in shops, with partitions separating the post office counter from the shop counters. Sub post offices offered just about everything the head post office did. Later, the phone system was split off from the post office. And the post office set up a sort of banking system. The post office banking system sort of came and went, but currently exists. So it is possible to use a credit or debit card to make cash withdrawals at a head post office or sub post office, without making a purchase, because it is also a very cut-down bank. In fact there is talk of making the post office bank do even more, because many small towns have lost all their branches of proper banks but still have a post office. There's also talk of making the post office the bank of last resort, for the kind of people that real banks refuse to do business with. At some point the post office allowed other shops to buy stamps for resale as a convenience for customers, but mainly so they could get rid of stamp machines from the streets because they were frequently vandalized to rob the coin boxes. Later still, increasing high street rents forced some head post offices to relocate into special areas in supermarkets. What was essentially the head post office (because it was the only post office) operated as a sub post office. Philip was talking of the fact that although the post office area in a supermarket keeps post office hours, some supermarkets may have checkouts that offer some post office services outside of post office hours. You can weigh a parcel at one of them, buy stamps for the parcel and maybe (I don't know) even send a parcel, but you can't pick up a parcel waiting for you to collect it. You can only pick up a parcel at the actual post office counter in the supermarket and only during post office hours. Oh, and along the way we privatized the delivery side of the business as Royal Mail. Prompting somebody I know to suggest we should also privatize Royal Family. Not at all the same as convenience stores acting as collection points for packages sent via DHL, or from Amazon or whatever. Just that peculiar institution of the British post office. As I said, it's complicated. And I simplified, a lot. Others will be along to fill in details I omitted and to correct my errors. -- Paul
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