Postal trouble in Salzburg

Residents have to find their own letters

Alois Rachbauer has had to search for his letters from a pile to the letterbox for several weeks.(Bild: Tschepp Markus)

In a block of flats in Salzburg-Itzling, the post doesn't end up in the letterboxes, but in a pile. A laborious puzzle rally then begins for the angry residents ...

"How can the post office employ someone like that?" Alois Rachbaurer no longer understands the world. For several weeks now, mail delivery to his block of flats in Salzburg-Itzling has not worked at all. "The delivery man can barely read, so he simply puts all the letters from all the residents in the letterboxes in the stairwell. "Then everyone has to collect their mail. It's also sensitive stuff - what's the point?" he is furious.

One example: a few days ago, he received a book from the city of Salzburg for his 75th birthday, complete with a personal dedication from Mayor Bernard Auinger. "It was just left lying around. But it's really nobody's business." All complaints to the post office were in vain.

Post apologizes for the incidents
It sounds completely different to the "Krone" newspaper. They apologized for the inconvenience in a statement. "A new deliverer was on duty here, who we have since parted ways with," it says. And: from now on, "experienced postmen" will be looking after this address again.