Only a few presents arrive at Mariahilfplatz 17, even in the weeks leading up to Christmas. And if there is a nicely wrapped package – for example from someone who is particularly grateful for the support of a clerk – then Silvana Mikulovic-Ibishi has to send it back, as the deputy head of the post office in the district office emphasizes: “We can as authorities do not accept gifts.”
The fact that the days leading up to the festival are among the most work-intensive of the year for the more than 1,500 employees at the post office is due on the one hand to the Christmas cards that are sent out by the post office itself and on the other hand to the 40 to 50 greeting cards that arrive every day during Advent and should be brought to the right man or woman in the widely ramified authority. Because everything runs through the headquarters, where it is “sorted, stamped and distributed,” as Mikulovic-Ibishi says. Only items that are not addressed directly to a person in the post office are opened in the post office. The consignments to District Administrator Christoph Göbel are collected in his antechamber, where the employees also take a look to see whether there is anything suspicious in the letters – especially during the peak phase of the Corona crisis, Göbel has also repeatedly become the target of insults and threats .
Since the new branch in Munich-Riem has housed the first departments, the messenger has come twice a day instead of once to deliver the mail to the branch offices – for example to the vehicle registration and driver’s license office in Grasbrunn. However, the department is not only responsible for the classic postal service and the switching of incoming telephone calls. Mikulovic-Ibishi and her team also organize the temporary allocation of four company cars, MVV tickets and the company bicycle.
In the series “My number” the SZ presents people every day until Christmas, in whose life a number has a special meaning – from 1 to 24 like in an advent calendar.