Come on La Poste, you’ve gotta be having a laugh!

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? NICE right? At least I’m pretty damn sure that that looks like NICE – 06000 NICE. Well, guess what? After a few weeks [...]

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Never believe anything’s impossible! A lesson learned in La Poste.

I’ve had many frustrating run-ins with the La Poste (post office) as I am sure most people living in France and many other countries have experienced also, but the lack of consistency in service and unhelpfulness in France is second to none. Until yesterday. I had ordered some items online from Amazon and like a [...]

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Losing it at La Poste

After many, many rants about La Poste and the incompetence of the employees, my visit this morning was one I was not particularly looking forward to, but I didn’t quite count on it ending as it did… I was to collect a registered letter (which should have been delivered to my home but of course [...]

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Piglet’s Trotters & La Poste Miracle

I was having a miserable morning at work today and decided to distract myself by taking a walk to La Poste to pick up some registered mail I needed to collect. On the way, I walked past the drop in beauty salon (as you do) and decided to go in and get ready for my [...]

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Mr Postman

I’m especially pleased today as our postman is back from his holidays so this should mean the end of having to collect post from the post office because the stand in postman is too lazy to ring the doorbell. This comes as excellent news the day I am hoping to receive my passport back through [...]

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Lettre Recommandée

Oh la la ! Opened up the letter box the other day to find I had an Avis de Passage (a note from the postman to say that he had tried to deliver a Lettre Recommandé and I needed to pick it up at the post office). A Lettre Recommandé is a letter that needs [...]

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