Talk:Sorting office

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Closed the discussion as no merge per opposing consensus. ww2censor (talk) 15:29, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merger[edit]

The article Sorting office is a stub treating an aspect of the Royal Mail. Sorting office is of questionable notability as an independent topic, and may best be handled by making it a section of the Royal Mail page. Cnilep (talk) 16:54, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: The term sorting office is used worldwide not just in the UK. ww2censor (talk) 17:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: As above; the term doesn't seem to be specific to Royal Mail, or even specific to Britain. Remember, someone searching for "sorting office" might be from anywhere in the world, so a relevant stub is better than throwing them into an article about a particular organisation with no explanation of the term itself. Can you supply evidence that "sorting office" is primarily a Royal Mail term? If not, then a link from Royal Mail to here would be all that is appropriate. There is scope for extending the current stub to discuss sorting and delivery logistics, and then creating a "redirect with possibilities" to it from Delivery office and any other significant related terms. — Richardguk (talk) 17:35, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

From Sorting office: "Sorting office is a term used by the United Kingdom Royal Mail postal system for a location where mail is collected and sorted for distribution to addressees." I know of no reliable evidence to support or refute this. Cnilep (talk) 16:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The UK does not have an exclusive on use of the term; for instance An Post uses it on this webpage, India uses it in their postal manual, Spain uses the term here, as does Jamaica Post here and here, Hong Kong here and Bulgaria here. At least one British newspaper has used the term when referring to the United States here. The UPU for example uses it for radio frequency identification, for Barbados, Zimbabwa and for Surinam. The page needs more content to take on a worldview, not a UK-centric one. ww2censor (talk) 18:02, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: Its not just Royal Mail specific. It needs a lot of expansion however, comparisons of different sorting offices etc. But one mute point is that they aren't called 'Sorting Offices' by Royal Mail, they are 'Mail Centres'. Saying that, perhaps not mute at all it complete refutes the one claim of the one sentence. They did however used to be called sorting offices, some still even called sorting offices see Royal Mail Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, but nowadays (especially new builds) are called Mail Centres. Uksam88 (talk) 20:03, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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