Deutsche Post

So I'm kinda mad at the post service here! I got a notice card from the Post on Monday that a package was waiting for me at the Customs office. Once I had the time (today), I took the bus to the area and then walked several blocks to the office. I knew where it was because I'd had to do it a couple weeks ago for another package. Once I got there and handed over my paper (and a little waiting), I was told that the package had already been picked up... momentary confusion, then I realized it was likely this card wasn't delivered and my package two weeks ago was the one from this card. Total waste of time and pretty disappointing that I didn't actually get another package.

After that, I went to the Media Markt to talk to the guy that sold me the home DSL since I still hadn't received the DSL modem in the mail. The Telecom company is coming tomorrow to activate my line and they aren't supposed to do that until I have the modem. The DSL man at the store told me that if I still don't receive it by tomorrow to go back and he'll call the DSL company for me. Once I got home, I found a card from DHL sitting on the floor with my name on it. (Deutsche Post turns packages over to DHL when they aren't delivered on the first attempt.) It said something about a package for me was in a "Packstation" on the main road near my apartment. I read the address (Osdorfer Straße 98) and started walking in that direction... after I wound up a couple kilometers down the road in the middle of some farms (likely outside the city limits of Berlin) I decided that it couldn't be that far. Once I turned around and started walking back, I saw a Deutsche Post person on a bike and asked him where I should go... it turned out that the Packstation was only two blocks from my apartment. Apparently the house numbering went up on one side of the street until 90 and then went back down the other side (including 98). So... quite a walk and then the DSL modem, right? No. No, it was movie tickets from Deutsche Bank that I'd "won" because I brought a new customer to the bank. Of course, I still haven't received my bank card in the post, but I have movie tickets... go figure.

Tomorrow, once T-com comes to activate my phone line, I'm going to the Media Markt to find out about re-ordering my modem and also to the Bank to have them resend my bank card.