RUSSIAN POST !

[Елена Зарубина]

About Russian Post.

Certainly , each of us with his life once yes or spat toward the post office. Say that Russian Post works badly - to say nothing . It seems that this institution - have a tireless , senseless and merciless guardian to Innovation XXI century. This citadel with its brave defenders , departed on the defensive and storing true secular traditions . Well, okay - pretty epithets.

Looking at their current commercials, it may seem that Russian Post has taken all the best , say, Fedex - modern equipment and trucks , perfect logistics , smart employees in a neat clean clothing. Yes - PR is not bad, but ...

The other day I had a chance to visit one of rural post offices . Rickety log cabin thousand nine bearded , built with metal made ​​on the conscience barred windows . In the house is a porch with a wooden door through which we enter the so-called terrace, and then through another , upholstered in the best traditions of the genre of rural young skin can request a price , the door - the main room .

Creaking floorboards, we enter cautiously , so as not to violate the spirit of antiquity , whom filled with low ceilings with massive beams, with peeling paint multilayer predominantly white , timbered walls , upholstered plywood and glued , as can be seen in some places, many cultural and historical layers Wallpaper is indistinguishable color and pattern .

Fired oven, exuding the fragrance of birch seems firewood. Walls in various places without any planning ( as a corner information ) replete with all sorts of mega- shares on the Russian Post . Some as seen on faded parties models already for several years. Going to the front , you can see , finally , an island of civilization - a workplace employee (just not as much as I have shown in the advertisement : () - computer and printer. Amid blazing heat fuser technology looks very modern, despite the fact that she was , apparently, a little less years than this home.

On the shelves ( windows ) regular pattern - powders , cigarettes , stationery, postcards, even mobile phones , film ( someone else needed , right? ) , And suddenly .... CANNED ! Yes, canned - sprats in tomato sauce , saury oil, sprats , canned corn , canned meat and other long-term stored edibles . Template gap comes when you realize that you still went on , almost got a parcel . But I was happy too early , when he thought my surprise reached a climax . It turns out that canned here , by and large, no one buys , and plan to carry out necessary. Yes - should be carried out plans to sell CANNED through a branch of the Russian Post ! So enterprising department heads to shove these grub here on bags its postmen to those in turn can realize their people ( to put it simply , vtyuhat grandmother) ...

And the postman walks with a thick and heavy bag on the belt amid snow-covered fields to a distant village , tin cans clanking . "We - we have time , you - successful! " - RUSSIAN POST !

[Елена Зарубина]

I was at the post office in Berlin and other cities, not only in Germany. Sent a postcard from Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic .. Alas the comparison is not in favor of the Russian Post. Russian Post - Stone Age. Sometimes I can not send a parcel, because the post office is a crowd of old ladies who have come to receive pension benefit!!! In these circumstances, to engage in mail art - almost heroism))))

[Szabó Zelmira]

I like this discription. Sounds so "theater". Really Post Art.