tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362454344378752317.post6335334460183431265..comments2024-03-08T09:42:28.879+01:00Comments on Burnt by the Tuscan Sun: Life in Italy Top 10 Reasons You've Not Got MailIrreverent Italyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15104487411073849736noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362454344378752317.post-38568651385794137032012-07-05T09:07:48.436+02:002012-07-05T09:07:48.436+02:00I remember #7 from decades ago, it's not new; ...I remember #7 from decades ago, it's not new; then the only exception was that you could do more than five but they had to have a special itemized list (basically doing the work of the postal worker), and I was recently the victim of its corollary: limitless amounts of single transactions are possible at one time if the person at the sportello wants to flirt with you... I was stuck behind a young cute flirtsy blond who had 25 individual raccomandate which she was filling out with the kind and attentive assistance of the 50 something male sportellista while three other sportelli were chiusi (with people sitting behind them, either chatting with colleagues or doing some arcane inventory work counting piles of envelopes again and again and noting there numbers on little slips of scratch paper.jacquesnoreply@blogger.com