A Rainy Rant

[@dukenukem8381]

Top Gear Kherson edition 😅

[@anonym1984]

If you haven't watched it, search for "Bottom Gear Ukraine"

[@sup5356]

ZeroFG, pure truth, zero BS. Love it.

[@luminyam6145]

Agree, I love this man.💖

[@longleaf0]

I fucking love how REAL you are mate! In a world full of propaganda and fake bullshit you're a shining beacon of down to earth, common sense :D

[@alexandrecordeiro4957]

💯 per cent, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

[@ConnectionIsLost]

I agree so much! So much BS among others. I´m angry, donated to another guy(s) that seems to be wasting money on nice hotels in UKR.

[@fredfred2363]

I don't know why, but this was yet another great video. I love the way you explain stuff and give us little snippets of regular mundane life in Ukraine. Most educational Joe. Stay safe 👍🏻🇬🇧

[@jonathanbinns5725]

Absolutely agree, Urposhta is where enthusiasm goes to die. Often staffed by true soviet potatoe shaped people,often old or old before their time . Behind them will be an armoire with plates in and random "things " for sale like in a 70s garage. There will be the inevitable pictures of the family and a potted soviet plant like a geranium or something vaguely tropical. Every service is delivered as an absolute favour and never,ever, with a smile. On the positive side, it is the happening place for soviet pensioners who are longing for the days of tasty ice cream and pointless queues. Nova poshta ,the mutts nutts ,I live in butt fk nowhere,the lass twigged I was english and switched flawlessly,I couldve kissed her,a little tear came to my eye,no one speaks english here ,except my mrs. Yes, I should speak Ukrainian,I wish it was that easy.

[@MostIntelligentMan]

im fluent in 3 languages and never tried learn any of them, secret is just learn like 3 words a day, thats all, it wont stress you its easy and in month you know almost 100 amd that is already enough to start talking if they r common verbs and words.

[@braveworld2707]

@@MostIntelligentMan Some of us don't have the ear for it. My daughter was repeating back morse code that I was trying to learn on her first hearing of it. I know written morse backwards but have trouble separating the sounds. I have tried to learn a different language but it just sounds like radio static to me and is all jumbled up. I desperately wanted to learn another language and some r-soles just soak the damn things up. 🤬

[@theamazingbatboy]

Trust me, if a retard like me can learn a foreign language, anyone can. It's simply tedious, frustrating and humiliating being talked to like a child-everyone will assume you're intellectually challenged but you just have to commit to it. Your biggest barrier to learning Ukrainian is most likely your English speaking wife (no offence intended, I'm sure she's lovely). When I emigrated to France with my wife we made a pact to only use our laughable pidgin French to one another in the house. We literally both had one of those mini pocket dictionaries from the olden days, sitting on the dining table, so when miming "pass the salt" didn't work I could at least look the word up. It was a huge pain, basically work, but the upshot was the whole world opening up to us as we gained confidence. After a few months I started dreaming in French. Like the previous commenter said-after you learn some basic grammar-you just have to learn a few essential words a day, which leads to a basic transactional level within a couple months. You'd be surprised how little vocabulary is used in ordinary conversation; the first words you learn are the most often used (the terms for 'DO' and 'THING' become your best friends). I'd bet there are a ton of Ukrainian words you already recognize, just through osmosis.

[@RudolphoAqui]

As always Mac, chin up, head down, stay safe

[@homeig-2234]

Nova Poshta is legit, can confirm

[@basinUkraine]

Haha very recognizable Nova posta is awesome! Same day delivery from Mykolaiv to Cherson..Meest is also good. I have a ukr posta mailwoman that does not deliver but just walks around with my mail ( mostly for my kids from grandparents) cant get it until after a couple of weeks she leaves it at the post station.. she also brings the pensionmoney to my mother in law so have to stay polite.. Stay safe and get some good bosch wipers from epicentre. Ocin (autumn) has arrived..

[@braveworld2707]

Spring has arrived DownUnder and temp today is 23°C but according to the weather office if _Feels like 18°C_ so has Spring really arrived? You stay safe there ok! 👍👍

[@basinUkraine]

@braveworld2707 haha i remember arriving in Sydney in EU summer, got a cheap plane ticket to Cairns within 2 days :) hope you have beach weather soon there..

[@BridlewiseOregon]

Joe, your rant made my morning coffee time. Sorry your pain made me smile.

[@TinyPirate]

Big Mac under fire: 😊 Big Mac going to the post office: 😬😤🤬

[@RudolphoAqui]

Lord I was born a rambling man

[@HylanderSB]

Thanks for helping me appreciate the friendly and competent postal workers at my local USPS branch.

[@Jack-E7]

"and to Ukraposta" Buckled 🤣🤣

[@theamazingbatboy]

You have become a local Mac, when you can complain at length about state postal services! Good for you! 👍

[@vitapont7338]

works better then an ID card 😂

[@tiapina7048]

How funny! Only few days ago I've started seen Nova Posta adverts here on YT.

[@1q2w3eqawsed]

It s gonna be number one post service, just give them a bit time to open decent amount of offices

[@tiapina7048]

@@1q2w3eqawsed But I'm not in Ukraine. Not even living in a neighbouring country.

[@vitapont7338]

@@tiapina7048 but maybe you will send something there for someone :)

[@braveworld2707]

Was NovaPost the one that had the warehouse bombed in Kharkiv some months back?

[@tiapina7048]

@@braveworld2707 Yes, end of June.

[@anadin0612]

Thank you good sir. Your insights are both interesting and entertaining.

[@julianprice1587]

Interesting and entertaining post, this one. Thanks Joe.

[@DarkestAlice]

Thank you, Joe, for another very interesting explainer. Stay safe 🇺🇦

[@garyfilmer382]

Very amusing post, Joe, I thought you were about to say that you got into a deep conversation about existentialism with the babushkas at Ukr-Post, lol!😂 Thank you, Joe, stay safe out there. Razom do Peremoha!🇺🇦🔱Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦🔱

[@walterjohnson6357]

Rainy season starts next week in Seattle so Kherson is ahead of us. My ouside project starts Friday so this podcast gets me in the right mood. Those poor souls in the trenches. God bless them and you too.

[@MordorsMadness]

Catch DPD putting a note in the door saying they've missed me before they've rang the bell with the dogs food a few times now. 👀💀 Stay Safe Lad 💚 The Ruzzian anthem bit 😂😂😂

[@ulfhedtyrsson]

*enters post office* *hard-bass Katyusha intensifies*

[@pashok1641]

I remember those days when ukrposhta was an actual time machine to soviet times, were people used papers and computers, and it was fucking 5 years ago so todays version is actually a Modern version, that is trying to become a poor chinese copy of novaposhta and it's hardly failing P.S one thing that is very pointing is an age of workers: 20-25 years old vs 80 lvl Babushka(I VE BEEN WORKING HERE FOR 100 YEARS AND I OUTLIVED YOU ALL SO WAIT UNTIL I TAKE A TEA WITH PECHWNKAS AND THAN YOU CAN GET YOUR PARSEL)

[@BigMakBattleBlog]

i suppose you see the nuances more. it still seems pretty fuckibg USSR to me. I shudder to think how bad it could of been

[@MrDermotMcDonnell]

As entertaining as ever 👍

[@EeeEee-bm5gx]

Hello, hello 🤗

[@FLMan4UA24]

Stupid cheap, stupid fast. Слава Нові Пошті!

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Hey, how ya doowin?

[@braveworld2707]

Got more than the seven words Ben. Nice!! 😁😁

[@rsweeneydhl]

i'm just here to feed the algo. best of luck keep it up

[@strangeke7750]

Someone get this man a phone tripod. One of those that can curl its legs around objects.

[@janicnevim3969]

I came to contact with Nova Poshta here in Czechia. Works great, thanks to them I got my Zhadan book and Kalinouski support patch. Also all this you said makes me think that communist heritage stays everywhere in the same place, since Česká Pošta (basically the Czech version of Ukrposhta) is a sick man dying in unimaginable agony for decades.

[@Echo_-tx9ve]

Another one to add to the list of idi nahuis

[@MichiArina]

As a ukrainian completely agree with you. Whenever I go to ukrposhta I feel like I'm back in time😅..there are always babushkas working, even smell is peculiar, not like in other post offices

[@xealit]

Nova Posta 👍

[@clalmeida67]

💖 Please be safe, dear Joe + everyone in Ukraine!! 💙💛☮

[@JT-qs4tv]

fundraiser needed to pay local assistant for PO runs.

[@jompy151]

Great rant 👌

[@guillaume4519]

Yeah post office look like the same all over the world

[@Nanyuki1989]

++ and seven more words for the algorithm.

[@christines.5241]

yeah, waste time, petrol, risky rainy roads, thanks liked riding alongside hi Joe hi OneSock💙🇺🇦💛

[@stevekelly2018]

Mac - So how do I send you a parcel? Just address it to Joe MacDonald care of a Post Office address in Kherson?

[@homebrandrules]

goodonya Joe

[@henryaxe1]

Hahaha, its like France without the bullets!

[@ivangohome]

Even the sex appeal doesn't work with the Ukrpost receptionists😅

[@rossphillips3891]

Nova Posta is the best!!!! Better postal service than all post services Australia.

[@jonno27]

The further Ukraine distances itself from Russia, the better it gets. This principle even applies to things as simple as sending aletter.

[@PraetorUA]

Ceramic plates, suppressors and gutchi gun mods shipped straight to you via Nova Posta is just wild. Who'd have thought this is what modern war would be lol

[@BigMakBattleBlog]

True.

[@MG99673]

So...mud season is starting in your neck of the woods? Stay dry mate😁

[@IronCurtainTwitcher]

I am now applying for a job in Ukrposhta

[@wullieg7269]

council workers

[@braveworld2707]

Come on Joe, tell us what you really think of them. 😁 An interesting snippet of life in Ukraine. Thanks for that. 👍 Joe just doesn't call a spade, a spade, he calls it a *far king shovel.* 😳

[@putindead2406]

Ukrpost hello from USSR😅

[@ivangohome]

He is actually at home with a car window background

[@deafdog]

😁👍🙋🇦🇺

[@putindead2406]

😅

[@OstblockLatina]

I had one, I repeat, ONE, experience with UkrPoshta and already at that, their customer service told me to come over to Lviv (I live in Germany and they knew it, they had the sender's address) to one of their UKRAINIAN branches (yes, from Germany) and pay a few Hrivnas for redirecting a letter, because sb gave me the wrong postal code and the thing had the code of the NEIGHBOURING Lviv district, just a few blocks away from the recipient's address. After some to and fro per e-mail, and getting the manager involved, they finally grudgingly delivered it (more like sent an SMS to the recipient to generously allow him to pick it up AT ALL), but it was lying in Lviv's central post office for over a month I think.

[@paulbeesley8283]

Damn right! Ten minutes to post a postcard and. two weeks for it to arrive. The staff are helpful but the process is slow and beauracratic. To make matters worse, have you seen that clip on Kyiv Post, of the man boasting if Ukrapost's efficiency?

[@andrewashman3333]

Joe ! Don't you know that women can breathe in through their ears so they don't have to stop talking.😇

[@joh1732]

sank you for drawelling witz Deutsche Bahn!

[@clalmeida67]

Rainy rant summary: 💌Nova Posta PLUS PLUS💌 vs 💣Ukra Posta MINUS MINUS💥.

[@server1ok]

We have these socialist companies all over mainland Europe, especially in banking

[@taralown7023]

Don't get on the Brits bad side he's coming for UKR posta Lolo

[@ibagm.8]

➕➕ ​​well done 💙💛slava ukraini💙💛

[@ronblack7870]

nova means new. so i guess someone just created a new postal company since it sounds like the ukra poshta is a dinosaur that could never be modernized because of who works there and runs it.

[@Kas-d5b]

Muddy season starting I assume. Perfect illustration of old occupied Ukraine vs new free Ukraine - ruski mir is shit

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Xit it is indeed

[@ogilvienator]

Everyone knows from first day in 2022 not to use it.

[@BigMakBattleBlog]

I dont have a choice. random intenational mail ends up there evwn though it was adressed to nova poshta

[@Wraith-Knight]

kherson is pronounced *herson* dude how has no one told ya this

[@RosemarieStars]

😂 Thanks for the update on how NOT to send you things in 🇺🇦

[@pro.crastination]

Ukrposta - is government owned post Nova Posta - is private owned buisnes, that's why it's so much better) Thank you, for fighting for Ukraine, my friend ✊