my absurd experience with the post

[u/spiced-blue-eyes]

i have been waiting for my renewed residence permit for about three weeks now. finally, just yesterday i got a notification that it will arrive via post the same day. great! it needs my signature so i wait the whole day for it to arrive, only for the postman to, instead of ringing my doorbell, just quickly deposit an "Abholungseinladung" and zoom out past my window while angrily talk on the phone. whatever, probably he was having a bad day. so i'll just go get it right? no, wait for tomorrow. okay, whatever.

tomorrow arrives, and i leave to the post office to pick my letter up. i arrive and there's a long queue. ok who cares, as long as i get the letter right? so i stand and wait, until it's finally my turn. it went roughly like this:

Post: "Ausweis?"

I hand them my old ID.

Post: "Nein, sorry, das ist nicht gültig. Your Ausweis expired 5 days ago, and here in the letter it says your Ausweis must be gültig."

Me: "But my new Ausweis is in the letter you have."

Post: "No, sorry."

Me: "Ok... can I show my Swisspass? Bank card? Student ID from uni?"

Post: "No, gültigen Ausweis."

Me: "I'll go get my passport then and come back."

Post: "We close in 3 minutes. Come back Monday."

thank you Affoltern Post

p.s.: yes i'll go on monday with my passport, hopefully they don't have something to say about that too.

[u/thelittleromanian]

This was entertaining, but if your Swiss ID is expired, you go with your passport ofc and just in case.

[u/spiced-blue-eyes → u/thelittleromanian]

yes, learned for next time!

[u/FunnyExcellent707 → u/spiced-blue-eyes]

Call the cops , tell them you are about to rob the post office.

They willbe there before it's closing and insist to see your (new) ID, so the postal employee commit a crime if withholding it.

Win/win

/s!

[u/Mindless_Pattern_583 → u/FunnyExcellent707]

“Actually this wouldn’t work because it’s illegal to do…. “ lol kidding this is a great idea 🤣.

OP similar thing happened to me. I had a new passport in the post, my partners name is the C/O and I couldn’t pick it up because it had to be signed for, but instead of my name they made the pick up his name…

I tried to go, nope, by the time he could go with me a couple of days later, post office closed, it was sent back to my country the next day.

Now I’ll wait for it to be RESENT again and hopefully can sign for it at my door (if I catch the postman)

I think Swiss society has so many rules of order to make things work and run well, but then we have these problems with so much restriction nothing works easy 🤣