German speaker - help me with deutschepost.de?
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:43 am
I mailed a letter to a German footballer (who shall remain unidentified in this post) last year and included one IRC, which wasn't enough. The player's team mailed back my IRC with a note in English saying the IRC wasn't accepted in Germany, and paid the six euro postage themselves. I want another Autogrammkarte from this year so I wrote another letter to send. I thought I had the currency to mail this time, because I *think* I understood from deutschepost.de that the Germany to USA price hasn't changed, but I grabbed the wrong coin and ran around my city to find a place that would be able to give me single euros when I exchanged money. I had completely forgotten that I didn't have any single-euro coins left in my stash from trips to France via Ireland and Spain (trip home via France). The exchange rate was atrocious and I had to pay a $7.95 fee. (When I mailed the letter, I taped a baggie holding a five-euro note and a one-euro coin to the inner envelope, and taped the coin so it didn't move. Then I left my keys at the post office, but that's another story.)
Is there anyone here who can help me translate the DeutschePost website so I might be able to find out if I can buy German stamps and avoid running around like a chicken without a head if I ever want to write to another German footballer? I don't think I've posted enough to be able to trade stamps with anyone yet.
I'm also planning to write to English footballers, but I have no problem with reading the Royal Mail website :-P And if I write to someone in America, I don't have to buy stamps off the website.
Is there anyone here who can help me translate the DeutschePost website so I might be able to find out if I can buy German stamps and avoid running around like a chicken without a head if I ever want to write to another German footballer? I don't think I've posted enough to be able to trade stamps with anyone yet.
I'm also planning to write to English footballers, but I have no problem with reading the Royal Mail website :-P And if I write to someone in America, I don't have to buy stamps off the website.