Talk:Postal service

Courier services

Swept in from the pub

I wonder if this should be covered under Postal service, or if it should be its own thing. For instance, if you are going skiing in China, SF Express provides a courier service for you to send your ski equipment to the resort so you don't have to carry all that equipment with you on the train. Similarly, if you are travelling around Japan, you can use Kuroneko to courier your luggage to your next hotel so you don't need to lug it onto the train with you. The dog2 (talk) 20:17, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

I have passing familiarity with the Japanese company, not the Chinese one. I think since these are so niche, it makes more sense to mention them in those specific destinations and keep the general concept of a courier at postal service for trying to get Thing A to Place B. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:55, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

If the courier service is mainly used for shipping luggage, and it does it in times and at prices that appeal to travellers, then I think it should be in Get in or Get around along with the trains, planes or whatever that take people to the same places. If it is mainly used for shipping packages home, then put it in Connect in the city or country article. AlasdairW (talk) 20:58, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

The one in Japan is a regular courier company that can be used to ship anything, like DHL, UPS or FedEx in the West. It's just that Kuroneko also ships luggage from hotel to hotel, and given that Japanese trains don't have much space for luggage, it's usually much more convenient to just courier your bag to your next hotel, and their service is actually quite affordable. Japanese hotels are used to handling that, so the concierge can usually collect payment from you and arrange the pickup, and they usually have waybills available for you to fill in. I'm not sure if the Chinese company does hotel-to-hotel luggage delivery, but they're also just a regular courier company. I know that some ski resort partner with them so they can pick up your ski equipment and deliver it to the resort. And Chinese university students also use them to send their belongings from home to their university dorms and vice versa. The dog2 (talk) 21:12, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

I used this service for a Japan ski trip a few years ago, it was incredibly helpful! The first place I thought to look just now was Japan#Get around, which would ideally be linked to from relevant regional #Winter Sports sections. I see there's already a small section in Japan#Connect, which I had assumed until now was more for communications than luggage? Gerode (talk) 00:33, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

OK, I've added a section under postal service. We can always spin it off to a separate article later if necessary. The dog2 (talk) 16:32, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

I wrote a few sentences in Downhill snowsports#Plan your visit and Cross country skiing#Cope, with links to the courier section. LPfi (talk) 07:52, 6 March 2025 (UTC)