We need to send quite a few things home and after a few hours tracked down a post office that is where it was supposed to be - according to the tourist maps and google - and was open :) We're dreading the whole process as we spent hours last trip chasing up the 'bolletini" or forms that must accompany each parcel - most post offices don't have them -they run out. They have the boxes that you need but not the forms. For example during our last time we couldn't find a post office in Milano with the forms -not the central post office which is enormous nor any of the others that we went to by taxi in the rain with our "regulation boxes" boxes -we ended up using DHL in Milano.
Another time in that trip we got stuffed around in Venezia when a postal official at one post office said that we had to post a whole pile of glass pieces for mosaics in small parcels. Jules and I made up about 20 small parcels- each item wrapped in bubble wrap and cardboard and each parcel individually addressed. We went to the central PO which was then at the Rialto and the helpful PO person asked us why we just didn't put everything in one box instead of having so many little ones! :) :)
(It's not a language thing & we have quite a reasonable understanding of the vagaries of sending stuff to Australia.)
This time we have our boxes and once again no bolletini :( and for those of you ever looking for the Post Office at Rialto, don't bother, the beautiful bulding has been sold to Benneton :(
Today is the day to tackle the post office again and Rob & I are procrastinating :)
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