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It could be worse. Here is what Finnish postal company is doing:


1. Unpredictable delivery times.


Letter sent from your own home town, may take anythign from days to months to reach you. That is if it ever does.


Atleast here in Central Finland hospitals no longer entrust urgent deliveries to our state owned postal company.



2. Mail delivered by lost property office.


In Helsinki one lady was surprised when lost property office delivered stack of mail to her. In top were letters to her (thats why she received them), then letters to about everybody else in that apartment block. Lost property office had reced those from railway company which had retrieved them from one of their commuter trains.


Turns out the postal company stores mail to be delivered into locked but unguarded lockers somewhere in neighbourhoods. Subcontractors are supposed to retrieve mail from them and distribute them to customers. Someone had burglarized such locker, retrieved mail, checked content and dumped non-valuable stuff into commuter train.


3. Mail delivery subcontractor delivering mail to his/her own stash.


This magnificent subcontractor chose to "retain" some of mail he/she was supposed to distribute. Last time I heard of this, police was trying to figure out if they had all missing mail or if there was another stash of stolen mail somewhere.


4. Mail troleys waltzing down the highway.


Latest episode features neglient subcontractor, who failed to properly secure cargo. Eventually mail trolleys rammed their way through trailer's rear doors. End result was mail "distributed" along the highway, ready for reading by all literate fluffy friends living in adjacent forests.



After all this complaining, you gotta give credit where credit is due: our "postal company's" grass moving service is reportedly punctual.