WOW! Unbelievable! Not only do Germans have automated self cleaning toilets but they have now replaced the local post office with a huge yellow box called The PackStation. We received a note in our letterbox from the postie saying a parcel awaited our collection at a PackStation nearby. So we trotted over to find a huge yellow box next to the pavement with multiple doors of different sizes. We punched in our name, scanned the note's barcode and as if by magic one door suddenly sprang open to reveal our parcel. After picking it up a voice announced, "Your parcel has now been collected. You have no further mail to collect. Good afternoon.", then the door swung shut.
Next door was another smaller PackStation where you could buy boxes, have them weighed and post them all without the aid of a single person. Apparently there are 2,500 similar PackStations all over Germany. Of course directly behind the new glossy Packstation stood a rather decrepid and now defunct 3 storey old Post Office with locked doors and dusty windows....
I wonder how long the machine would hold onto the parcel if we were away? Maybe it's linked into the green recycling CrunchStation just around the corner ....
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