It’s been a while since I’ve had any run-ins with La Poste, but my latest experience must be a joke, surely? You decide!
What can you read next to the postcode below?
What town can you read here?
NICE right?
At least I’m pretty damn sure that that looks like NICE – 06000 NICE.
Well, guess what? After a few weeks of wondering why my letter hadn’t been delivered, it appeared in my letter box, with NICE circled and a sticker on it saying that La Poste didn’t know what town it was.
Not delivered as they don't know the town
I knew we were rural here, but come on, this is just a joke right? Even if my handwriting is that hard to decipher, I’ve put the post code on there, 06000 which is the postcode for NICE! Gahhhh, I am speechless and might very well take this letter back to La Poste and ask for a refund!
You should certainly ask for a refund. Good luck in getting one!!!!
Did you send it Lettre Prioritaire? I’ve found that La Poste are more adept at the blindingly obvious when I choose this service instead of the slightly cheaper one (lettre ordinaire?). It shouldn’t be the case- a service offered should be honoured. La Poste should refund you but I doubt they will as the French tolerate crappy service and don’t vote with their feet.
Thanks! I’m certainly going to try!
I make my sixes like you, and I always have problems with French bureaucrats thinking that they are fours. So maybe it’s that? Or you just have a lazy letter carrier!
Maybe, but when I look at some of the handwriting on letters that get successfully delivered to me it does make me wonder. Someone suggested that the post person may have started l’apero a little early and I think they may be right
My vote is a lazy postman late for his dinner…
I would def go back and ask for a refund, it’s not so much the money it’s the principle!! Even i know where Nice is in France. grrrrrrr
Definitely! I had written the town and the postcode so can’t wait to hear what excuse they’ll try and give me!
That’s amazing; pretty clear that you were trying to get mail to Nice. I am surprised though in France that mail gets delivered without problem to some addresses which is not much more than a name and the town.
I know right? The people that used to live here used to just put their surname and the village name – we still get their old post now!
How frustrating! Our postlazy (what we call our postlady) won’t come down the drive with letters to sign for, but just leaves a slip in the box saying she couldn’t deliver it because we weren’t there – and we were! So frustrating cos have to wait another 48 hours before we can get it from the local agence in the village. But, on the plus side, she was too lazy to drive down and sell us a calendar this year!
Ha ha! We had a post lazy when we lived in Lyon, all he had to do was ring the doorbell ( we didn’t have a drive). Hope your postlazy decides to do her job soon, its so annoying!
Depending on the time of year we seem to live at an address that does not exist! It is unbelievably sad but true…
Seriously? How frustrating, is there anything you can do?
That is very silly. Take it back to La Poste and show them the envelope with all the irony you can muster.
I’m deciding which post office to go to at the moment, I think i’m going to have a hard time keeping my cool! At least i’m not pregnant this!
Is this a Monty Python skit ?
lol …
I wish!
I had to buy minutes for my phone at the post office in Troyes, France and the post lady was the nicest ever. She even called the number and punched in the codes for me as the rapid fire French was more than I could translate in time to get the thing charged up again. And the line of people waiting behind me made no snide comments nor seemed impatient. I love France. Maybe you’ll just have to forgive this one mistake.
If only it was just one mistake! My run-in’s with La Poste have been numerous, I send and receive a lot of mail. Lucky that you dealt with a nice lady, thankfukly they do exist
But it could not be more clear!
Go and give them what for.
It’s so unlike my own experience with La Poste…out in the sticks they could deliver anything, including a letter addressed to
‘Foreigners’ followed by the town next to my village and a handy note ‘about 5 kilometres away.’
No postcode.
The handwriting looks fine to me. Was the postal worker reading it upside down?! Talk about incompetence.
Ha! Maybe that’s what the problem was!