[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board

Remco Rijnders remco at webconquest.com
Mon Oct 4 18:40:04 CEST 2010


On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:33:31PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> 2010/10/4 Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>:
> >
> > <OT>I'm quite sure the German Postal Services (we don't have a Federal service
> > anymore, it's been privatized) have some guidlines as well and I'm quite sure
> > most companies, who do their mail using some programm or other follow those
> > guidlines as well.
> 
> Yes, there are guidelines, German Postal Service uses the codes
> similar to international license plates for cars. Like "I" for Italy,
> "F" for France, "D" for Germany, etc.
> Postal codes are not standardized, each country uses their own system.

<OT> And this actually means that even sending mail out of country without
putting any sort of country designation on the envelope or package might
work! (Or at least it used to when postal workers still had a decent pay
and took pride in their work).
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