(edit title) Ultimate post office idiocy Talk about anal retentive about "rules" ... Options

[ChocOwl]

By the way, if you have paid to have your mail redirected and they stuff it up you can complain and get some compensation. It's not a large amount however, I think it was less than 100kr. I had paid to have my mail redirected for a year and there were many letters that were missed (went to the old address), I managed to complain and get compensation 2 or 3 times. Just write a letter or ring Addressändring!

[BritVik]

It is all down to officialdom - gone bonkers.
When I went to collect my driving licence from Länstyrelsen back in mid-1961 the guy said that he had to have identification of me from someone who had known me for two years. A bit difficult when I had only arrived the October prior. I offered the named of folks back n the UK, but somehow that didn't suit. He never handed over the DL, but it did finally arrive the following week by post.

Incidentally the Swedish post doesn't work too badly really. In 1960 I had a letter delivered, addressed to me by name, but the address was simply Sverige, Sweden. That - to me - was damned good going. So I never knock them.

[David S]

Well my fiancee went back there today. Different person at the counter, the package was handed over without a second glance.

[Gamla Hälsingebock]

This comment won't be worth much, now, but, my Christmas cards from Sweden were opened there.

Postal employees seem to be under some kind of pressure to do a good...job...but for who?????

[serverax]

Not always ppl r friends with wife's or fiances ! so this a kind of a protection for you !

[David S]

As I mentioned before, people are explictly allowed to pick up these types of packages if they have the ID of the person, along with their own ID. I could have given my ID to you to pick it up and it should have been OK.

[byke]

The problem with ID in this country, is if a postal worker is given an ID card and doesn't do their job properly by looking at the ID. Later on the question of responsibility tends to fall not on the idiot or company that made the mistake. But passed off onto the consumer instead.

The same way in the past where some schools fail to reach certain academic levels, but rather than looking to examine or see why this happening internally at their own failures they choose to lower the overall standard. Thus exonerating themselves.

[StephenR]

Having a similar issue but with GLS / Schenker! GLS Helsingborg (which I think is just Schenker) managed to fuck up the address on a package (1 of 5) that I'm expecting by keeping the right street address and number but putting down the wrong area (there are two Kolonivägens in Stockholm) and instead of just moving the package from Nacka to Västerhaninge and sending out a new delivery notice, they have to take the package back to Helsingborg via Borås and Malmö. After a week it has finally reach Helsingborg and I guess another week back to Stockholm. Wouldn't mind but it's part of a pram for twins that are due any fucking moment.

[BritVik]

Having a similar issue but with GLS / Schenker! GLS Helsingborg (which I think is just Schenker) managed to f**k up the address on a package (1 of 5) that I'm expectin ... (show full quote)

Having a similar issue but with GLS / Schenker! GLS Helsingborg (which I think is just Schenker) managed to f**k up the address on a package (1 of 5) that I'm expecting by keeping the right street address and number but putting down the wrong area (there are two Kolonivägens in Stockholm) and instead of just moving the package from Nacka to Västerhaninge and sending out a new delivery notice, they have to take the package back to Helsingborg via Borås and Malmö. After a week it has finally reach Helsingborg and I guess another week back to Stockholm. Wouldn't mind but it's part of a pram for twins that are due any f***ing moment. ... (hide full quote)

Yet another person unable to express himself without reverting to obscenities. I take it that your twins are due any moment Twins that are clearly a result of your ???????.
Keep it clean mate. Ladies read these comments, doubtless your better half also.

[oddsock]

I was once told the following by Posten when showing ID:

"You have shown a Dutch driver's license. But the place of birth stated on it is not in the Netherlands."

I shit you not.

You can't compete with that kind of thought logic.

[BritVik]

. . . . I shit you not.

And you are no better mate. Try and keep the Forum at a better level, not in the gutter.

[entry]

I thought I would plan for all outcomes by putting both myself and my wife(we share the same family name) as recipients on an amazon book order. My thinking was that when we received the slip either of us could pick up the package.

NOPE!

They required both of us at the same time present with IDs... It just so happened that we were both there when this happened otherwise I would be somewhat outraged.

I sort of think it is the way the individual clerk interprets the rules.

[StephenR]

Yet another person unable to express himself without reverting to obscenities. I take it that your twins are due any moment Twins that are clearly a result of your ???????.Kee ... (show full quote)

Yet another person unable to express himself without reverting to obscenities. I take it that your twins are due any moment Twins that are clearly a result of your ???????.
Keep it clean mate. Ladies read these comments, doubtless your better half also. ... (hide full quote)

I tend to ignore advice on manners or culture from anyone who thinks that one shouldn't swear in front of ladies. Go back to the dark ages.

Secondly, growing up in Dublin, swearing was an integral part of my speech as it is with many in Ireland where swearing is far less offensive than other countries. Where you might say ehhhhh, we might saying 'the fuckin' fuckin'... ' while pausing to think. I don't intend on changing my identity to avoid your sensitivities. Do you spend your time lecturing Swedes on saying something is skit...?

[entry]

Stephen, I did not grow up in the dark ages but I get your drift. When in Rome do as the Romans. I have noticed that foul language flows from my lips now that I have resided myself to live and die here in Sweden. The smack on the back of my head from my dead mother does not feel so sharp but I still have the taste of a bar of Irish Spring soap being ground into the back most teeth in my mouth.

Cut some slack and if they can't take a joke or life in general F'em!!!

[BritVik]

I tend to ignore advice on manners or culture from anyone who thinks that one shouldn't swear in front of ladies. Go back to the dark ages. Secondly, growing up in Dublin, ... (show full quote)

I tend to ignore advice on manners or culture from anyone who thinks that one shouldn't swear in front of ladies. Go back to the dark ages.

Secondly, growing up in Dublin, swearing was an integral part of my speech as it is with many in Ireland where swearing is far less offensive than other countries. Where you might say ehhhhh, we might saying 'the fuckin' fuckin'... ' while pausing to think. I don't intend on changing my identity to avoid your sensitivities. Do you spend your time lecturing Swedes on saying something is skit...? ... (hide full quote)

I guess that goes to show why people don't have much regard for the Irish and that there are so many Irish jokes going around. They can't think fast enough, so they swear to fill in the time. Ah well, you can't win them all.
Like the IRA bloke who was sent to blow up the Queen Mary, but came back and said he couldn't get his mouth round the funnel.