Comments on: The Supermarkets are open on Sunday! http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=41 Thes - Old English for "this", neuter of thes, of West Germanic origin: Mediolanum - old name for Milan: Lif - Old English for "life", of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib 'body' Fri, 16 Nov 2018 07:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Andy http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=41#comment-9 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:54:50 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=41#comment-9 Hi Joan,

You are right, of course. I’ve not had any really bad experiences here and, in all honesty, I love Milan so much that I would probably just shrug my shoulders.

I’ve heard other stories about the postal system. In fact, we were at dinner with friends on Saturday night and my friend from the US was telling me about a missing parcel her Dad had sent over. Unfortunately, he added money in the parcel as a last minute thing – which is something I would not do here. However, all my Post Office stories are good ones and we’ent and received many parcels without any problem – even received some with inadequate postage!

Anyway, nice to have you on board – but why are you living out at Garbagnate?

]]> By: Joan http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=41#comment-8 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:27:25 +0000 http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=41#comment-8 Hi,
I’ve just found your web through the Guardian abroad site (bored and surfing around the web!). I’ve lived in MIlan (well. Garbagnate, just oputside) for ages now and although there are good things about Italy, sometimes I really can’t stand it. Like today: I ordered a book from Paris, they sent it to me by registered mail on 22nd Dec. and I never got it: in fact the person who sent it received it back today! Impossible to get any answer, let alone an apology from the local post office!!!!
This is very strange because, admittedly I was away from 25th Dec to 3rd Jan., but even so I should have got a card telling me there was a parcel for me and they should have held the parcel at the PO for a month instead of sending it back…. the man in the PO told me they’d look into it and the Manager would ring me tomorrow (well, if you believe in fairies….)
Maybe we can exchange (horror!) stories about living in Milan, although from what I’ve read of your blog you only seem to have come up against “quaint” oddities here, not the nitty-gritty stuff!
Joan

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