Tuesday 29 March 2011

Not going postal


I've never seen a postbox in Turkey. If you ever want to send a letter (which, in Turkey, is as good a communication tool as a Town Crier with Laryngitis), you should head down to your local post office and try to decipher which queue you ought to be standing in.

Speaking of which, this seems to be one of the only places Turks form an orderly queue. I once saw two tourists jump a queue in a Turkish post office. The locals lost their minds. I had only come in to pay my phone bill and inadvertently entered a twilight zone.

6 comments:

Stranger said...

The other day, my 4 year old asked me what a mailbox is. It's really hard to explain this to someone who is illiterate, has never seen a mailbox in his life except on TV, and who has never actually seen any mailed paper communication aside from bills, which appear as if by magic on the ledge next to the building's pigeonhole mailboxes.

crackers and cheese said...

Has the blogger ban been lifted yet, or are you still finding your way around it?

Monika said...

where do you keep your head when out strolling??? There are postboxes everywhere!!! And they actually work!

Natalie - Turkish Travel said...

I have never seen a postbox in Turkey and hate standing in queues at the post office. Result is that everyone gets an email from me but not a letter. Not even a Xmas card.

Jack Scott said...

There's a little yellow postbox near the central mosque in Bodrum. We suspect it's just there for decoration and to confuse tourists. We send online cards home using moonpig. A bit expensive but my little ol' mother doesn't do email!

I think the blogger ban has been lifted as I've been dropping in and out of various google blogs (including Arse) with ease without using a VPN. Hurrah!

Anonymous said...

There's also a post box in Gumbet, but I suspect it's used mostly as a urinal..