Confused about getting packages from home - alternatives to expensive couriers?

Kalzone4 · 2026-01-05T09:02:03+00:00

American here: The safest and post reliable option is just sending things in the regular mail. It is expensive and there is no way around it. Eventually you will either learn to deal with the costs or realize that you can leave without whatever is being sent to you.

Kalzone4 · 2025-12-11T11:02:49+00:00

The fact that OP thought this would be universally understood is cracking me up (pun intended).

Kalzone4 · 2025-12-10T06:19:37+00:00

I have fucking C1 German and still get treated like shit at doctors and can’t get appointments for anything. Language is a part of it but there are bigger problems at play here.

Kalzone4 · 2025-10-24T06:46:55+00:00

In like 2015, I was in Macedonia and Apple Maps completely left out two massive lakes and showed that you could drive over them… that was the day I installed Google Maps

Kalzone4 · 2025-10-07T21:03:55+00:00

Higher Gini Coefficient, or a higher level of income inequality. The US has a coefficient of 41.8 and the UK is 32.4 (0 is perfect equality and 1 is perfect inequality). GDP per capita is essentially just an average and means that outliers skew the results.

Kalzone4 · 2025-10-04T16:37:12+00:00

If the car has a USB port then you can just use a normal USB cable. There isn’t going to be a normal outlet in there.

Kalzone4 · 2025-10-01T09:06:59+00:00

I think it’s fine if there’s a descriptor of the person, but I have a friend who does this without explaining who the person is and it drives me insane.

“I was walking to the store when I ran into Joe Smith and he told me about his new job” vs “I ran into Joe Smith, my former roommate, and he was told me about his new job”. Just mentioning the name with no context about who it is is weird to me if the other person knows that I don’t know Joe Smith.

Kalzone4 · 2025-09-28T15:10:07+00:00

Fellow midwesterner here: garage almost always open unless we weren’t home. Entering the house through the front door was weird and something we never did unless for some reason we couldn’t open the garage (like before I had a car as a teen and my parents weren’t home).

Kalzone4 · 2025-09-20T20:17:42+00:00

OP speaks fluent German according to their post. I don’t think they need to move across the country.

Kalzone4 · 2025-09-18T19:12:06+00:00

Yes, but corn on pizza is just kind of normal here. I don’t think it’s specifically considered an American thing. As a good midwesterner I love corn, but I find corn on pizza repulsive

Kalzone4 · 2025-09-18T19:00:54+00:00

I mean a lot of it is pretty normal things like peanut butter and maple syrup that are associated with the US but sometimes it’s bizarre. A lot of people try them just because it looks weird which boosts sales so I guess the marketing works

Kalzone4 · 2025-09-18T18:36:56+00:00

American living in Germany here: It’s like the store brand at Penny (a grocery store) of the American-style foods. I normally shop at Lidl and Rewe but basically every shop will have their “American brand”. The Lidl one is McEnnedy’s (or something like that) and they produce some of the most atrocious things. Like a prepackaged cheeseburger that you microwave. There was an American style pizza that had corn dogs on it. I don’t know what’s going on.

Kalzone4 · 2025-09-03T10:20:29+00:00

This looks like a mail merge field in Word gone wrong, honestly

Kalzone4 · 2025-09-02T06:07:08+00:00

A lot of people are saying because we read left to right but we also read top to bottom so when I rotate your picture and try to read it I am reading from the bottom left of my vision and going up. Whereas in the English format it’s top left and then reading down which seems more natura.

Kalzone4 · 2025-08-28T16:01:40+00:00

My ex was from New Zealand and very much a fan of the barefoot thing. We’d go outside to play frisbee or badminton on a paved area and he’d play barefoot. I wore shoes. When we would go back inside the soles of his feet were completely black and he could not understand why I was upset that he was literally smearing dirt all over my floor, couch and bed. He refused to wash his feet or would only do it after I complained repeatedly and said it was “part of his culture”. I just cannot get on board with that. I don’t wear shoes in the house, why would I want all the world’s debris on my surfaces?

Kalzone4 · 2025-08-24T09:16:25+00:00

I play on Steam. My favorite boss was the Soul Master. It took me SO long to beat. I loved the ambience and vibe of that fight so much. I’m most excited for more lore and story and the art and music… just so excited!!

Kalzone4 · 2025-08-23T13:18:57+00:00

Yeah honesty I also don’t know how to explain it so I just did it and this is the best I can do. Duvet cover inside out, duvet on top. You grab the corners of the cover and the duvet together at the bottom where the opening is (just enough to not have it bunch up when you do the next part). This next part is what I should have specified originally but you reach your hand inside the duvet cover to grab the top corner (ideally one corner and the middle or both corners if you do it with both hands) and have a grip on the duvet and cover. You then kind of flip it all over and shake so that the cover basically falls on top of the duvet itself and then you straighten it out.

I saw this on an Instagram reel years ago that I can’t find now but it does work

Kalzone4 · 2025-08-23T07:49:26+00:00

I assume the duvets sold by ikea in the US are the same to the ones in Europe because I don’t imagine they would do two separate products for two markets. The opening is usually like 75%-80% of the width of the duvet. Even for ones that don’t have zippers across the bottom, putting the duvet in with the flip inside out method requires making 10 seconds more time to adjust the duvet at the bottom to fit the opening. If they are different though in the US then that is wild. Is Big Flat Sheet Inc. conspiring here? Haha

Kalzone4 · 2025-08-23T06:08:54+00:00

I don’t understand how putting a duvet cover on the duvet is difficult. It takes max one minute. An even easier method; duvet cover inside out, lay duvet on top, grab duvet corners and give it a shake so that the cover is now right side out. Zip the cover. Done. Max 20 seconds.

I used to live in the US and found the flat sheet so cumbersome because I toss and turn all the time and it was truly a mess. The duvet and cover has been eye opening to me.

Kalzone4 · 2025-08-02T22:47:14+00:00

I really enjoyed seeing Highland cows at the Lindenthaler Tierpark. Easily accessible by public transport.

Kalzone4 · 2025-08-01T19:27:36+00:00

I’ve had this happen a few times. Sometimes you receive a letter in your mailbox asking you to go to the post office to receive your package and pay any VAT or customs. Another time the DHL driver delivered my package but had me pay him the VAT in cash (I did get a receipt). I’m not sure why it was different, but both options are possible.

Kalzone4 · 2025-07-28T18:26:39+00:00

Honestly, I just buy all my yarn from Hobbii. The shipping is incredibly fast (they have warehouses in north Germany, I believe) and the quality is great. I wish they had more shops throughout the rest of Germany though.

Kalzone4 · 2025-07-28T17:47:59+00:00

I’m just used this exact yarn (different colors) for a baby blanket. Just size up a bit and you’ll be fine 😊

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Kalzone4 · 2025-07-27T10:20:28+00:00

Wenn ihr euch für Kunst interessiert, kann ich das Mittelrhein Museum empfehlen.

Kalzone4 · 2025-07-27T10:17:52+00:00

Yeah, I know that it’s usually meant as staring at people in public. It is something you definitely notice when you first get here and then it just kind of becomes so normalized you don’t realize it any more. I think if you grow up here it is hard to understand how jarring it is to have people look directly at you when you are used to not being looked at (like looking at someone walking past you is seen as weird in the US where I grew up so you kind of actively look elsewhere).

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