The ambivalence of the post: welcome messengers when they bring long-awaited letters from loved ones or missing people, often enough undesirable messengers when the sender is the bank or the office. You know the people who deliver these sometimes sensitive messages, mostly not at all. Nevertheless, the trust in the reliability of the unknown in yellow-black is enormous, there is no other choice.
All the more problematic if they then no longer appear for several days when urgently needed letters are missing. This is what happened to Katrin Mittermeier from Forstenried last week. She is a lawyer and works in her “living room office”, as she calls her home office. Since Thursday, November 11th, she has not received any mail for several days in a row, which is harmful to her business. “Letters are the basis of my business,” she says. When she saw a postwoman on the street, she asked why she wasn’t getting any more mail. According to the lawyer, she reported that many cases of illness had just occurred at the post office and that there was a delay as a result. This description will be confirmed to her at the responsible post office on Herterichstrasse.
A doctor’s practice in Sollner has also been affected by delays for about a month
A request from Deutsche Post Munich also confirms this impression. There are occasional delivery delays, “these should not be longer than a day,” explains press spokesman Dieter Nawrath. But Katrin Mittermeier waits a whole week for her mail, only then does she finally receive letters again and can go about her work to the usual extent. But the delay does not resolve everywhere: Annette Berz’s doctor’s practice in Solln has been affected by delays in mailing letters for about a month, she says. The situation has not improved since then. Letters to patients that would normally arrive within a working day now took three. The patients called the practice and complained, but the staff in the practice was not to blame for the delays.
Nor can the messengers dressed in yellow and black do anything about it. When there are staff shortages, the other postmen who have to keep delivery operations going suffer most. Katrin Mittermeier’s messenger explained to her that additional shifts and overtime were the consequence. The only thing left to do as a recipient is to wait for the next letter.