Hi Takashi, *, On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:11:37PM +0900, Takashi Nakamoto wrote: > > I will publish a RFE issue for supporting functions of Hagaki (postcards in > Japan), but I want to know circumstances of postcards around the world in > advance. I don't know how postcards are used in each country. > > About 10 billion postcards are sent a year in Japan. Are more postcards > sent in your country?
Puh, don't know.. Most postcards are sent from outside germany (from holidays) I guess, others are sent to take part in lotteries/riddles.. > Japanese mainly use them for New Year's Greeting. 3 billion are used for > this purpose. For what do you send postcards in your country? See above (although I'm not sure, personally I don't send to much postcards apart from holidays since all my relatives live nearby). And I'm not sure about whether more greeting-postcards or more letters with greeting-cards are sent.. > The size of Official Postcard in Japan is 100*148mm. Almost the same here.. 105 × 148 (DIN A6) - but postcards can have almost any size, as long as they fit into a standard mail-slot / letter-box Standard size can range from width:140-235 mm height: 90-125 mm (the factor width/height must be >= 1,41) > Zip codes in Japan are > composed by 3 digits, a hyphen and 4 digits. Is it different from yours? Yes. 5 Digits, without hyphen. (but with city), e.g. "12345 City" (For american zip-codes, see issue http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5948 they can be 5 digits or 5 digits, <hyphen>, 4digits. > In your country, OOo is not required to implement supporting functions to > write postcards, is it? Yes. No software "must" support creation of postcards in germany. Most of the time postcards are written by hand anyway. People won't complain if the software cannot deal with postcards. > I've written an article to let you know how postcards works in my country. > It is attached in the end of this mail. Please have a look. Very interesting, thank you :-) - Postcards surely aren't used as much in germany as they are used in japan. The only numbers I found regarding postcards is that during peak-times (holiday season) up to 500.000 postcards (coming from foreign countries) per day are delivered. That is about 18.000.000 during from June to August. I have no idea how many postcards are sent from within germany. Other numbers I found: 21.000.000.000 deliveries in section "letters" per year that includes promotional stuff (advertisments) (9.000.000.000) and press (magazines,..) (2.200.000.000) So when in japan more than 10.500.000 postcards are sent, this is more than the total of both letters and postcards sent in germany. (And I think far more letters than postcards are sent in germany) (note all numers have the zeros added, although the sources speak e.g. of "21 Milliarden" - but because of the confustion that may arise because of "billions" not meaning the same everywhere) > [...] > * Requirement for OOo > > - supporting Hagaki dimensions [x] although only by entering the values directy. > - Hagaki wizard (auto formatting and printing plural address in turn) [x] Basically a mail-merge, isn't it? - not sure what is involved in auto formatting (maybe a template will do?) > - complementing address function for Base This is more tricky. > [...] ciao Christian -- NP: nichts --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
