It's really addictive this blog, I agree. :) I'm waiting in Moscow airport to come back home and I'm, more than happy I found this blog so it's save me from boring waiting.

I want to comment about about #3 :

Usually I don't have any reason to go to the post office, but recently happened to me that I was on the queue to make a payment. Let say there was 10 people in front of me and I was the last one of course :) It took me long time to finish my job, since in about every 2 minutes new people (mostly old people) came up just from nowhere and went directly in front, claiming that they have already passed all the queue the same day. They asked directly to the staff about something they were waiting (it's seems) all the day for it. Every one of them has different story, someone waiting for some software to become available and so on.

I can remember now such situations not only in post offices, but in others too. Take in mind that most likely might happen to you in offices of civil services, like post, national railways, national revenue agency etc.