La Poste ou la banque?

Well.. they make me laugh..
An average day (of an ebaying mum) involves a trip to La Poste, not the quickest establishment in the world as you can imagine.. open with very strict hours and as im finding rules too...
You could be in line for up to 40 minute while people pay in 50 euros and draw out 20.. its incredible....

The gucci lady at the post office down the hill says she CANNOT send anything other than a letter at letter price... which involves a colissimmo at 4.30e minimum but the older lady at the village up the hill one can send whatever for whatever... to a point, so i may send a couple of items for 3 stamps.. like 1.62e or whatever.

Then... the next time i have to pick up an item and it happens to be down the hill so i decide to send my 2 parcels while im there... madame gucci sets some rules.. she is going to be on her own behind the counter like every afternoon and one morning so dont be coming here with more than one colissommo at a time, none of my usual 10 parctels to send... i always arrived totally organized having got the slips the last time and filled them out prior to my arrival, all she has to do is weigh and scan and add and take the money - its really not rocket science, and SHE IS A POST OFFICE AFTER ALL - but it IS too much to ask!

At this point i pinch myself and check, yes I AM IN THE POST OFFICE, and yes I HAVE WAITED HALF AN HOUR, and most of the people before me have in fact been dealing with their POSTAL bank accounts.. it hardly seems fair.

I want to send parcels and now i will be restricted to only some afternoons to do this!?

Now, mostly I only go to La Poste up the hill be i feel that they may have had their xmas lunch or met up as she has stopped accepting parcels as letters and i now have to pay the full price.

So.. i have a new scam.. i buy stamps and put them on and post things in the box outside after i have paid for the obviously too large to fit through the post box slot items. I know its silly but somehow I have to stand up for my principles and my mum always said count the pennies and the pounds will come.. though im not sure about how true this is! LOL

A day in the life...

A normal day so far in the life of marseille mum..

just going around doing and thinking and thinking and doing..

went to the post office to send off a couple of ebay shop items and collect some - collection ok - a deisel tshirt that i thought i had been knocked on and a G-unit tag that wasnt worth what i paid for it. The items to post ok except i had completely misjudged how much one would cost and decided to come back home and ask the buyer for a few pounds more to save any loss..

next stop bank - usually a very friendly place since ive been here but a new lady was training someone on the caisse and also chatting to her friend on her mobile, so took ages to ask simple question, which resulted in me needing to have an appointment to ask! will go next thursday (this is why some things take so long here!)

next stop car wash - nah maybe not - a bit cold still after the SNOW this week - YES SNOW - first time in 3 yrs they have had it YUK..

next stop geant to check out their cheap digi picture frames - fantastic buy bought 10 - will give some as presents and sell some... back to 1, 2, 3 euro shop (which im not sure why its called this as i always spend more than 20 euros when i go there!) - bought a million small items for presents and ebay shop and came out xx euros lighter as usual... struggled across the car park who's queue was now backing up into the main road through marseille and headed home...

ok so i didnt make the car wash - so, one large cuppachino and big spliff later - got my washing up bowl out and washed it anyway - its a 15 minute job really being a convertible its only like half a car to wash - fab - job done - took photos to sell it...

only now i need to clean the inside to get a few roof down shots... am pschying myself up for phase two with another coffee and another ...

ebays going ok but need to make more profit and quicker profits.. have a few d&g jackets for sale in the next couple of days so will have to see what prevails...

no more thoughts for right now, but i like this bloggy thing... living here with no one to chat to except myself some days gives me a little outlet... clears a space for a little more thought..

gone now
to do car interior (using pledge - hope thats ok)
get the roof down and take some pics
(im sure the people who live upstairs already think im mad so it wont matter to be putting the roof down on such a frosty day)