I don't believe it!!

[ajm]

I thought that french bureaucracy was bad but how about this: Just been to the Agence Postale to buy some stamps.. The woman logged on to her screen then asked my name,where I lived and then confirm my phone number. The number she had was wrong so tried to change it without success. I said this is stupid just forget it whereupon she gave me the stamps.

[curtis]

Did you not ask her why she was asking for that information ?

[ajm]

I said. Is this necessary just to buy stamps and she just nodded

[Niftyons]

You couldn’t make it up.

[elsie]

I asked the ChatGPT AI: Why are French Agences Postale asking for the address and telephone number of customers purchasing stamps
(https://chat.mistral.ai/chat gave a similar response)

French postal agencies, including La Poste, may request customers' addresses and telephone numbers when purchasing stamps for several reasons

1. **Fraud Prevention**: Collecting personal information helps La Poste detect and prevent fraudulent activities, such as the use of counterfeit stamps or the purchase of stamps with stolen payment methods.

2. **Compliance with Legal Obligations**: La Poste is required to comply with French regulations that mandate the collection of certain personal data to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

3. **Customer Service and Communication**: Having accurate contact information allows La Poste to notify customers about issues with their stamp purchases or to send receipts and confirmations.

4. **Digital Stamp Implementation**: With the introduction of digital stamps, customers may need to provide personal information to access and use the service securely.

La Poste ensures that personal data is processed in accordance with data protection laws and is retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. Customers have rights to access, rectify, and delete their personal data, which can be exercised by contacting La Poste directly. citeturn0search0

If you have concerns about the collection of your personal information, it's advisable to contact La Poste directly to understand the specific reasons and how your data will be used.

[ajm]

Next time I'll buy them at our local bar. How would tourists manage to buy stamps for their postcards?

[hughnique]

Next time I'll buy them at our local bar. How would tourists manage to buy stamps for their postcards?

Do they actually send any these days, I gave up when the cost of a stamp exceeded what I was sending, all e-mails and WhatsApp nowadays. God bless the internet, comes in handy but many businesses have gone to the wall because of it.

[Hotrodder]

There are some far reaching results of the internet that are now coming to light. Particularly with regard to young people not developing social skills outside of the online "social media".

For the rest of us, it will soon be impossible to live without internet connectivity, and presumably via a smartphone.

I spent the greater part of two days battling with a chat bot to have a moan about our crap internet. I'm not worried about speed, which I am told is pitiful, but the fact that it keeps cutting out randomly. Any time. Any day. It connects and disconnects as and when it sees fit. I was promised a technician will come tomorrow.
At the end of the conversation once I managed to speak to an actual human, he said he could award me 200 gigawotsits credit on my mobile phone so I can keep access to the internet while I wait for the technician. I informed him that is of no use to me because there is no network signal here. The mobile phone we grudgingly own has to connect through our internet router. When router no workee, phone no workee. I think by the end of the conversation he was thinking of finding another career path.

[RobertArthur]

@Hotrodder, it has always been a mixture of: blame the client, blame the hardware, blame the copper wiring or software inside client's house and not the many miles outside. Some modem/routers are more equal than others, they are better in handling those low level adsl signals. Some technicians make their own lives easier: just swap the modem and see what happens. Might be an idea. It should be easy for them to check their wiring outside from the local exchange, no rocket science at all. With a modern (?) DTI it is easy to separate the outside and inside world to check out the condition of Orange's wiring. Another approach is using a little frequency generator from inside your house - using the PDL - and measure the signal level inside the first connection box, probabably several hundred meters down the road. We had the pleasure to know that the wiring of Orange was totalement foutu (installation early fifties), very thin copper wires and corroded connectors inside a box up there, high in a poteau. Did you already check the wiring inside?

[exile]

I asked the ChatGPT AI: Why are French Agences Postale asking for the address and telephone number of customers purchasing stamps
(https://chat.mistral.ai/chat gave a similar response)

French postal agencies, including La Poste, may request customers' addresses and telephone numbers when purchasing stamps for several reasons


2. **Compliance with Legal Obligations**: La Poste is required to comply with French regulations that mandate the collection of certain personal data to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

Who do they think their customers are - 10 x international stamps = under 20€. A carnet of internal stamps similarly. One hell of a good money laundering racket - not.
La Poste needs to grow up and act like a professional organisation and not Tom and Jerry sell stamps.