Hi,
I have arrived in zurich just a month ago. Now, I have received a letter from Stadt Zurich. It is a form and I signed it but I don't know how i can post it to the address?? I mean should i use some stamp? and where to hand in the letter??

this for real?

Maybe try asking at the post office?

I believe there's one in Geneva.

Walk in. Take a number. When your number comes up, ask for "A" Post.

?? You don't know how to post a letter?

Well, if you know the address, then simply grab an empty envelope...put the address on the front part (that's the part without the opening for the letter). Then write your own address on the back (in case it would get lost etc.)...go to the psot office, grab a number..wait around until you see the number you've jsut picked displayed on any one of the screens above the windows (not the windows facing the outside world..but the inside windows where people stand below it)...not when your number appears on the digital screen...simply walk up to the clerk and tell her that you'd like to send the (closed enveloped) to the address stated on the front of it.

Some Stadt reply envelopes are postage paid so you don't need to put a stamp on or go to the post office. What does it say in the upper right hand corner of the envelope?

The envelope's right hand side is nothing written there. BUT the letter itself, on the upper side is written "P.P CH-8025 Zurich" !

hey, posting a letter isn't straightforward if you don't speak the language! I kept looking around first for stamp machines... but they apparently got rid of those? which means I have nowhere to use my little 5 rappen pieces.

anyways - yes, go to the post office, take a number, post the letter, and while you're at it, buy some stamps so you don't have to go to the post office everytime you need to send a letter.

Well, thank you. However I have seen some Post yellow boxes in the city. I don't know what they are for? Is it ok to simply drop it there?! What about the stamps?

Nice, it's free. Just put the letter in the envelope and put it in one of the yellow postboxes you'll find all over zürich.

PP explanation

You can use the yellow post boxes, but you will need to get a stamp from the post office first. There used to be machines, but as posted above die Post got rid of them

They are for your letters - drop them in if you have a postage paid envelope (as you seem to) or if you have stamped your letter. If you have no stamps, you go buy stamps at the post office or (I think?) at a kiosk (those things that are usually near tram stops - I hear that's where stamps went when they got rid of the stamp machines?)

Put the letter in the post box - and put the coins in the post box too**.







This used to work over here - although I have no idea whether it still does. But my wife used to do it when she was younger!

1) click on at bottom of last post;
2) choose any one from 26 (or more) on keyboard, and press appropriate key;
3) as a minimum of 10 characters are required for a successful post, you may have to add a combination of 9x spaces and dots;
4) to make letter stand out, you can highlight and select from size and colour, e.g.

Z

5) finally select Submit Reply from bottom and click.

Franking Mail for private customers.

You can also print your own stamps. Usually Kiosks will sell them too.

In defence of the OP, it is possible that he comes from a social background in which he has never had to post a letter himself. It isn't impossible.

I've never had to slaughter my own lamb or throw my own dinner party before, so I'd probably want to ask what to do. Horses for courses, and all that.

I think the rest of the answers he has received cover the practicalities, though.

I ws thinking about this one, it could be that it isn't even a social background but merely a gnerational issue. Kids these days probably don't know how to do it either (though they can google it I guess)

Take a number?

Tom

How the hell does someone manage to organise an Internet connection, something to type on, register on a forum and actually find the submit button...

...and not know how to post a letter ?

This digital age is making Zombies of us.

Yes.

Us northerners can't just whistle the postman as he rides past on his Vespa, like you chaps do...