Well, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a huge fan of the Austrian mail service. Mainly because they don’t deliver packages. Which I always thought as crucial for a mail service. Today I noticed that they do in fact deliver packages. At 7 a.m., that is. Now, we rarely ever get up before seven. My girlfriend starts her work at nine, and the stuff I have to do for university mostly starts sometime around ten. So, are we very different from other people? When do others get up normally? Is seven an official “I’m awake” hour? Is it an hour when you’re supposed to be dressed and ready to receive a package? In an effort to save you and me from the embarassment of nobody commenting on these questions, I’ll just do it myself:
IT’S FUCKING NOT!
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hihi, I can only agree. fuck all the mail services of this world. there seems to be one understanding of all post offices and post deliverers in every country to make everybodies’ lives even more miserable than they already are!!!
what was in the parcel, by the way?
Well, I’m not in a position to disclose that yet
According to a recent study, 64% of Austrians are apparently up by 7 am, and a remarkable 25% are up before 6 am. This ranks Austria 6th in a world-wide survey of early risers.
I forgot to mention that you should be happy about the parcels delivered by the Austrian Post because you can at least collect them from your post office if you’re not at home or awake when it is delivered. If you ever get a parcel from France or the Benelux countries, these are delivered by a subsidiary of Deutsche Post in Austria, and if you’re not at home when they deliver it, the parcel simply gets returned to the sender. Happened to me on three occasions.
Oh, I hope those 25% are part of the 64%, otherwise only 11% would get up after 7 am. Which, quite frankly, I couldn’t believe. And yes, I am grateful for the fact that parcels are not returned to the sender. Still, it would be much easier to simply say I should always get my parcels from the post-office, because the way it is now, I always have to either wait until the delivery guy is on break and returns to the post office, or I have to wait until the next day before I can pick it up.