shoppers and Canada post have an agreement for renting space out from shoppers. Shoppers employees must follow a training given by canada post to operate the clerk position. Mail is then collected/dropped off by actual canadapost drivers. That being said it's still branded as CanadaPost inside the stores
On Thu, May 8, 2025, 7:39 PM john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think in Ottawa the majority are shoppersdrug market. I think only two > or three are actual Canada post offices. > > Cheerio John > > On Thu, May 8, 2025, 11:54 Jarek Piórkowski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> At least some Canada Post postal outlets are not operated by Canada Post. >> See link to forum below for photographic evidence. >> >> However, the Name Suggestion Index is currently programmed to add >> `operator=Canada Post` tags to all `amenity=post_office` that have a name >> like "Canada Post" [1], and `operator=Postes Canada` for names matching >> "Poste Canada" [2], as well as `operator:wikidata=Q1032001` for both. >> >> I am thinking that this should be changed and the tags added should be >> `brand` and `brand:wikidata`, but not `operator` or `operator:wikidata`. >> This would not prevent adding `operator=Canada Post` tags manually on the >> offices that _are_ operated by Canada Post. >> >> But I don’t fully know the organizational details around Canada Post. How >> many of "Canada Post" outlets are actually operated by Canada Post - is it >> most, or a minority? Is it maybe that Postal Stations and Post Offices are >> operated by Canada Post, but most outlets are not? >> >> This is a cross-post from the community forum, in case someone reads one >> but not the other: >> https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/canada-post-outlets-not-operated-by-canada-post/129748 >> - feel free to respond either here or there. I have made a draft pull >> request in Name Suggestion Index with the proposed change: >> https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/pull/10942 where you can >> also comment. >> >> Thanks! >> Jarek >> >> [1]: >> https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/blob/e18d68f/data/operators/amenity/post_office.json#L187-L199 >> [2]: >> https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/blob/e18d68f/data/operators/amenity/post_office.json#L1168-L1183 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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