Hi everyone, A couple of days ago, I noticed that different post boxes in the United States had different ways of tagging that they were part of the USPS system. Roughly 60% had "operator"="USPS", 40% "operator"="United States Postal Service", and about 15 similar to "operator"="United States Post Services" or "United States Post Office". I wanted to make them all the same, so I asked on the OSMUS Slack group about the tags, and most people supported "USPS". I then proceeded to upload a changeset manually converting 1500 "United States Postal Service" or similar to "USPS". I should have waited longer before uploading. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62020302 https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Boq All post boxes in the USPS system now have "operator"="USPS". After uploading, people expressed concern about the choice of "USPS" over "United States Postal Service". The wiki states that abbreviations should be expanded, "USPS" could be confused with other agencies <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Power_Squadrons>, and this counted as an automated edit, which should have had better planning with the OSM community. I would now like to propose converting all post boxes with the tag "operator"="USPS" to "operator"="United States Postal Service". I would also like to add the tag "operator:wikidata"="Q668687" to the post boxes that currently have "operator"="USPS". Please reply with any feedback or concerns you have with this proposal. Thank you, Leif Rasmussen OSM username: LeifRasmussen <https://www.osm.org/user/LeifRasmussen>
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