Hannover - deutsche post

I awoke in Hannover - limited a mount of sleep probably 4 hours... Need to get moving this morning - firstly to post my son's toy back to Australia and secondly prepare for the next leg of the journey with finally some hill climbing - very limited in comparison to canberra and the snowies.

Firstly Deutsche Post - this is one of the highlights of the trip!!
The largest Deutsche post office in Hannover has been moved a few blocks away - however - they only put a little sign in the door with a not so useful map and directions. no big deal for me I can plug the street name into the GPS and off I go... BUT the postoffice is also a central sorting unit and a finance centre (post bank) . So the new building is the size of tuggeranong office park! hence I follow my diretions from the GPS and then have walk another 500 metres as the original directions are for the postoffice drop box - not the post office with the shop that we all know and love in australia. Finally at the other side of the building and I find a place called - Post Bank Finanzenter - this sounds like the front end of a bank not a post office - but guess what is inside - the bloody post office!!!!

it gets better - i go looking for a POSTPAK to sent box of lego - no box is the right size and i am instructed to go find a box at a supermarket and get some tape. Luckily the guys at my ETAP hotel got me sorted and I had a box ready to send the next morning. I cannot wax lyrical enough about ETAP but more on that later.

As the trip to the new post office goes straight past the old one - I had the pleasure of see lots of people encounter the same problem as I had earlier - alas for them no GPS - and I ended up have to interpret the directions for a bunch of LOCALS??? how wierd is that? I got this phrase down pat after a few goes - gerade aus, nach rechts, nachdem das „Willkommen nach Hannover“ unterzeichnet, gerade aus hinter dem Demolierungaufstellungsort, link an der Bruederstraße und es gibt einen Sicherheit Kontrollpunkt, zum nahe dem grossen rückseitigen spitzen Metallzaun durchzulaufen.

yes there was a security checkpoint for the post office ! - i think becuase people were getting so pissed off that the post office had moved. Speaking of which you want to really piss off a German, move thier post office!!! the poor workmen inside removing all the old office fixutres were harrangued by every single person who saw the sign. Apart from foriegners who saw the sign and then tried to work out where to go.... I have video footage of this - it is bloody hilarious.