Talk:Post office
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US processing
[edit]I have added some detail about the US mail sorting process and edited the article for grammar. -Apocaplops 16:17, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
US orientation
[edit]Perhaps this article could do with a little less reference to the US postal system. This article seems to start off fairly general and international in scope, but soon we start to get into the details of the US system, the general aspects of post offices seem to get lost in POSTNET barcodes, FBI posters etc. Xdamr 19:08, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- I'd second that [see the comment at the top]. This article could be slimmed down, and split into two: one article about 'post offices', and another more about the US system. I can't believe I was told off for changing the Post Office redirect to the British one [that's what it's called!!], 'because it shouldn't relate to one country/Post Office'. (RM21 07:13, 14 June 2006 (UTC) )
- For what it's worth, you were certainly right to have been. It's what lots of other postal systems are called as well. That's what dabs are for. — LlywelynII 03:59, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
- Now it seems material on post offices in the U.S. has been deleted or moved God knows where, and the article is U.K.-centric. Why must it be either/or? And what about post offices beyond English-speaking realms? Perhaps there should be discreet articles about facilities in different countries/cultures. Nevertheless commonalities and differences should be summarized in this article, IMHO. Furthermore there need to be good links to in-depth articles.
- I came to this article only wanting a link from mentioning that a particular town in the U.S. has a "post office", but find this article almost useless. I am no international connoisseur of postal systems, but I assume such people exist. Besides post offices in the U.S., I have substantially experienced them in Nepal, Russia and Austria. Each is interestingly different. Surely there is plenty to bue written about this, orm linked if in fact it has already been wikified. LADave (talk) 18:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
Tagging for more information
[edit]I put a tag a couple days ago, asking that the article be expanded. I only had general ideas, but surely a history buff or a postal employee would be able to list deficiencies right away. I noticed that a short list of "See Also" was removed a few months ago, while I'm in favor of limited use of Wikilinks, it's exactly those kind of terms that seemed to be missing in this article.
Other ideas: 1) Herej ĈĚěËħħē″[1]'s something from the Wiki article on the island called Rum: "It also has a shop and post office, which is manned by volunteers and keeps irregular hours". That suggests a sentence or two in this article about what various types of government, business and local community support postal services.
2) I never quite understood the role the post office plays in the US, in posting the FBI 10 Most Wanted.
3) I found the rather complicated agreements international post offices have about revenue sharing when mail crosses international boundaries. Doubly interesting, because almost no matter how antagonistic countries are, the international mail must flow. 98.210.208.107 (talk) 15:31, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- 1) Done.
- 2) Before the internet, people would use "letters" that they put in the "mail". To do this, they needed to buy "stamps" at a "post office". When they were there waiting in a "line", they might see the posters. (Why 10? Eh, it's catchy and, more than that, people don't pay attention.)
- 3) Quite. But this article is about the facilities, not the national organizations. — LlywelynII 04:11, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
An International View
[edit]I have tried to improve this article a little stylistically; however my knowledge of the subject is not enough for me to be able to make the article represent a truly international view of the subject. It seems to currently focus on a couple of specific cases (countries). Worse, it is often not clear when statements refer to the whole world, or just a single system. I have done my best on this issue, but the article as it currently is is clearly inadequate. EdwardRussell (talk) 22:34, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
Paragraph on Indian postal system
[edit]The paragraph on the Indian Post in the Name section is unrelated to the name "post office". The article could definitely be expanded so some of the information might fit in a new section about examples of post offices in different countries; alternatively, we could just remove it. --audreyw5678 (talk) 03:50, 17 May 2021 (UTC)