A woman wrote to our editorial office.
I’m standing at the post office, and some woman is choosing handbags... holding up the queue. She’s already asked for a third one; eventually, she realizes that people are waiting behind her and asks the clerk to start serving them because she probably won’t take the handbag after all—she has to come back with someone who can advise her. And there’s nothing strange about that—after all, Poczta Polska is a handbag shop.
It should be added that handbags aren’t the only things you can buy at the post office. In fact, it would be easier to list what you can’t buy there. You can get dressed, choose accessories to go with your outfit, eat, have a drink and read a good book. On the table at the branch on Kaszubska Street in Bolesławiec, there is a neat advertisement encouraging customers to buy coffee and choose a book to read on winter evenings.
Today, Poczta Polska is a bank, grocery store and bookshop, and all that remains is to wait for it to start selling hot dogs in a hundred flavors. None of this is helping the institution recover from its financial crisis. As reported by “Rzeczpospolita,” Poczta Polska has pledged its Warsaw sorting facility as collateral at a bank and is selling off its properties on a massive scale. Perhaps to help the institution, people should have bought at least one handbag instead of merely collecting a registered letter.
