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For reference this is how Royal Mail does it in the uk: Side 1 has the relevant info time/date/what/etc http://cdn1.alphr.com/sites/alphr/files/images/blogs/w
by joshvm 11y ago
For reference this is how Royal Mail does it in the uk:
Side 1 has the relevant info time/date/what/etc
http://cdn1.alphr.com/sites/alphr/files/images/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Royal-Mail-delivery-card-.jpg http://cdn1.alphr.com/sites/alphr/files/images/blogs/wp-cont...
Side 2 has contact information for your nearest post depot. Note that date/time is simply changed to 'hours' which saves space.
Fees to pay is actually a separate form (it's rare for most people to get this, so why waste space on form 1?):
https://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/fee-to-pay-10-2015-220x309.jpg https://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/fee-to-pay-10-...
I think it's pretty clean and it's normally obvious what's happened/what you need to do. They follow a lot of the suggestions in the OP, for instance the who/what/where/when is obvious and at the top. Payment is another form, as above, and the options for getting your item are on the back. There's enough room for large entry boxes and nice whitespace/branding.
It seems like that the USPS form is trying to handle every single possibility in one form which leads to a mess.
- tolien 11y agoWorth pointing out for the people complaining about lack of space that IME the postman writes at most a surname in the Name field and an abbreviated address (e.g. "42 Fake Street"), ignoring the postcode altogether - so the Address field is effectively double-height or so.
- 3princip 11y agoA Serbian Post example: http://i.imgur.com/pqmUdYE.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pqmUdYE.jpg I hate getting these, if I'm waiting for a package it means I have to wait another day and pick it up myself, if it's addressed to another family member and they're not around, the package is basically returned as they refuse to hand it over at the post office (understandable but inconvenient). But generally the post is fascinating, I order lots of stuff from China and while it does take a few weeks to arrive, nothing has been lost/stolen yet, I can track packages half-way around the world and it costs me almost nothing. Logistically it's amazing.
- the_mitsuhiko 11y agoI think postal services in all of Europe are heavily improving as a result of all the internet orders. They started rolling out pin locked boxes here which you can install for a fee at home and they put the package in there and then throw the one-time use pin into your mailbox. I think this sort of stuff has potential. //EDIT: these things: https://www.post.at/en/personal_receive_mail_collection_box.php https://www.post.at/en/personal_receive_mail_collection_box....
- alizauf 11y agoI think this is what the gopost option is supposed to do, but this version seems more effective.
- alizauf 11y agoInteresting! They do separate it similarly. I also like that there is less information on it--makes sense that payment is separate since it is rare.