Pedantistische Schimpftirade: Die Post lässt „Großbritannien“ als Zielland wählen. Großbritannien ist kein Land, sondern eine Insel, und die Ersetzung von Großbritannien durch Großbritannien bedeutet, dass Nordirland technisch gesehen von der Liste ausgeschlossen ist
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Von conradkun
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To be fair, that is not being pedantic when it is done by a literal post office.
maybe contact them directly?
Northern Ireland is a country though. In one of the senses of the word.
I guess it comes from the fact the the ISO code to send parcels to United Kingdom is “GB”.
But indeed the country should be “United Kingdom”
I also found it very confusing, given that the official name in the Universal Postal Union is (of course) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Look, I am not an expert of Post, but if I had to guess this is related to Brexit.
For transportation of goods GB is now treated differently than UK
I don’t see the problem?
Thanks god they don’t have Holland on the list
>**GB and GBR are used instead of UK in some international codes to refer to the United Kingdom, including the Universal Postal Union**, international sports teams, NATO, and the International Organization for Standardization country codes ISO 3166-2 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, whilst the aircraft registration prefix is G.
[From this wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain)
edit: they just follow Universal Postal Union coding it seems