I feel exactly the same as you. I didn't ask for it all, yet I'm the one who has to collect it all together and take it to the Okihof.
It does make me laugh though in some respects. It could only happen here.
I have one of these notices and I still get all kinds of crap in there.
It is a cunning ploy to test your Swissness. They follow you to see if you recycle it correctly.
Just have a box nearby & pile it all in. As a good Swiss you should be recycling paper, glass, plastic % compostables automatically anyway. It's a matter of habit.
Seriously, don't be too upset. Although you payed 24 CHF but on the positive side, you are the first, literally the first, that i see on this forum to have such a fine.
As have been said, that is a whole new level of being Switzerlanded, wear it with pride
Yeah, like this stops you getting junk mail.
Am curious - what was the exact wording of the notification from the Post?
I've seen many many overfull letter boxes (with the no junk sticker) but have never heard of them fining. Given how they often take undeliverable packages back it's very surprising.
How many times did they write to you about it before fining you?
I have just found a recycling map.
It does where I live, but then I'm beginning to wonder if I'm just lucky. We do still get an occasional flyer for a pizza place but certainly not enough to overflow the box. I'd have to leave it for 6 months to get that full!
Same at my place. When this happened the first time, I actually thought somebody was trying to steal letters from the box...I guess I should be happy that it's was my neighbor some people are just weird...
The attached message was saying "Ihr Hausbriefkasten ist voll. Unsere Mitarbeitenden in der Zustellung haben festgestellt, dass Ihr Hausbriefkasten so voll ist, dass wir Ihre Sendungen leider nicht mehr ins Brieffach zustellen konnen"
Indeed I couldn't find any similar cases on this forum.
Am I really the only one person here who thought that if he does not move out the commercial magazines, then there will not be a place for new ones and then everyone's happy?
Yeap
I think most postboxes here have two compartments. One lockable, where "proper" mail (such as letters with your name on it) go and an area behind for the free shit and local newspapers etc.
I believe the people putting the crap at the back are meant to take out the old stuff when they come a few days or a week later to put the newer crap in.
If the personal bit of the box gets full then the post office can't deliver your normal mail and are probably holding it for you. Hence the fine.
Did not notice any mails on this before.
But you know, when the mailbox is so full, some mails might become unnoticed
I think it would only be fair if Switzerlanded would work both ways. Why can I not fine them for late delivery? Our office is 50m away from the central post office in Geneva but we often get our post delivered by 10 am only. I'd love to write them a lovely little note with a fine attached to it. :-)
So once you've processed what was in there, you'll be able to answer?
It's horses for courses. You will probably find that your neighbours are much better than you at managing the incoming bumph, so the logical thing to do is to redistribute it into their letter boxes. If there is one neighbour who is particularly good at it, then make sure that he or she gets the most. This way, everyone's happy. A problem shared is a problem solved!
In many places Die Post doesn't give a fart about Bitte Keine Werbung. They do it anyway. When I complained at the hotline, they said they would look into it. 2 weeks later I got a letter, where die Post apologized and that they spoke to the postal office in question. During those 2 weeks, I got more commercials and important letters, put on purpose inside those commercials, so as to throw them in the garbage together. I had to complain again, did not get a letter this time...
Die Post in Switzerland has lost all of my respect as a Swiss ages ago...
It does, almost 100%. Anything circulated unaddressed through the post office should not be placed in your letterbox. What it does not stop are flyers delivered by people who do not work for the post office, for example, those who deliver pizza flyers. That stopped for us as well. We were mainly getting them from the German pizza delivery places over the border, but now that they are having trouble bringing their pizzas into Switzerland the flyers have stopped.
Don't understand the need to stop the ad. mags. ....... if you don't know whats on offer, how do you know what to waste your money on?
You could just empty your mailbox each day.