Pesaro, August 20, 2026 – “At a certain point I got so fed up that I wanted to call an ambulance, go home, put my mother on the stretcher and take her to the Post Office in Piazza Redi. Because they required her physical presence to close two open accounts with the Postepay registered in her name.” The story of this extraordinary bureaucracy is told by Gabriele Stroppa Nobili, technician at “TMkart” and a well-known figure in the social media world as a historian of the city.
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Maybe they thought of the degenerate son who wanted to loot the elderly mother’s account. How much money was inside?
Gabriele Stroppa Nobili laughs and replies: “In one, 12 cents and in the other exactly 2 euros and 46 cents. Moreover, my mother also has a current account at the Post Office and for that I have the authorization for withdrawals and deposits. For this reason, I felt like I was thrown into a theater of the absurd.”
All this in Piazza Redi?
“Yes, first I spoke with a clerk and then I also waited for the arrival of the director. Talked and talked again, explained the situation and my mother’s condition as she is bedridden. Then I went to the central Post Office in Piazza del Popolo. And I went back there to explain the situation and the desire to close the two Postepay cards. Because keeping them no longer made sense and you pay a fee at the end of the year.”
What was the solution for the Post Office employees and directors?
“I was supposed to go to a notary to get a power of attorney issued, or go before a judge and ask to become a support administrator. All for 2 euros and 58 cents. All considering that I have the authorization to operate on the current account that my mother still has at the Post Office. But do you know what the funny part is?”
No, please tell us.
“That the Postepay card with 12 cents inside expires in November. After that, those pennies, after about a year, will be transferred to my current account.”
The end of the story?
“That I keep the two cards with two euros and change inside and I will pay the activation fee at the end of the year. I lost the whole morning going from Piazza Redi to Piazza del Popolo. And to tell the truth, at one point I even wanted to chain myself to the entrance door and call newspapers and TV stations.”
Let’s cool down: take your mother, load her into an ambulance and go to the Post Office…
“Easy to say and hard to do, also because the offices in Piazza Redi are a maze and a stretcher passes with great difficulty.”
A story of extraordinary bureaucracy that seems to come from that oxymoron that says: “You are right, but I am not wrong.”
