USA, Canada / Tracking a package through the Polish Postal system sent from US [57]


So why is the internet full of complaints about the Polish Post Office?
Open your eyes.

USA, Canada / Tracking a package through the Polish Postal system sent from US [57]

To get a job with USPS you go through a background check, you get finger printed since it's a goverment job with federal rgulations. If you get caught stealing just one piece of junk mail, which gets thrown away anyway, you will be arrested, jailed and severly punished. The USPS has loses because of the internet and emails taking away from handwritten letters, but the people working for the USPS do not steal. They do however steal in the Polish Postal system. We make enough money working in the USPS that we don't need to nor do we want to steal other people's mail. It's a very responsible and honest job, unlike in Poland, where they can make anybody a mail carrier.

USA, Canada / Tracking a package through the Polish Postal system sent from US [57]

You need to send packages to Poland by registered mail so the person receiving it will sign it; then you will know it got there. And if they don't get it, you will at least get your money back. The you can try typing the custom number again at USPS.com and maybe it will come up where it is now, but does not always work.

People in Poland steal mail coming from the US all the time and it seams like it's getting worse. The Polish Postal Service is a shame with so much mail being stolen from foreign countries. A package usually takes 7-10 days. Sometimes sooner but the USPS cannot guarantee foreign arrivals. And with the holiday rush it might take a few days longer. My mom sent a letter to her sister in Poland 4 weeks ago. She never got it, so she is sending her another one via registered mail. It's terrible, how the Polish Postal system steals mail. I had pictures in that letter and it gets me mad that some Polish arsehole stole that letter and is looking at those pictures.

UK, Ireland / Born in Poland, living in the uK. Applying for Visa to the USA. [10]

You need proof you were accepted at a university and paid your tuition fee then apply for a student visa. But don't count on staying here because once your student visa expires you will have to return to Poland, unless you do what thousands of poles do - stay here illegally, and causing problems for other Poles to get visas, who in turn blame America for not abolishing the visa.

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]

When people come here with questions different people will give you different answers. Some you might not like but that's what happens when you ask on here. You have opinions of different people from different walks of life who experienced different things so don't let it bother you if someone says you're immature because you are not. You just wanted to know. People who call other people names are immature themselves if they cannot answer a simple question.

USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]


The Milwaukee area has only two and I checked your website and here are the two:

Sklepy Spożywcze
A&J Polish Deli and Liquor
1215 W. Lincoln Ave
Milwaukee WI 53215

tel. 414 643 7733
Old World Deli and Liquor
7630 W. Grange Ave
Greendale WI 53129
tel. 414 855 0470. This one just opened two years ago

A third European store just opened up in Adams. So now we got three. But they come and go. Stevens Point had a European Deli but that didn't do so go.


So how old would that make you? Original Polish immigrants came around 1850's. The first Polish family in Polonia settled around 1854.
Milwaukee isn't the whole Wiscinsin.

Life / Polish Card Games? Goła / Snap. [16]

Some are: "tysiąc", "wariat", "66", "kanasta", "wojna"

Life / Which Polish product you can easily do without? [51]

Don't realy need that thingy above the "c"
I could survive without some Polish dishes, such as kisiel, milk soup, serwatka, kompot, flaki or any other organ meat, galareta (jelly) made out of pigs feet, potato pancakes, szmalec and żurek.

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]


Poles don't start school until 7 years of age. in the US we start first grade at age 6. in Poland once you finish grade school , you are not required to continue your education. In US you are required to attend 4 more years of high school. Maybe they just jelous that we have more education than they do.


Lot easier than getting into college in Poland.

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]


There is more to traveling abroad. It is very expensive to travel, not every country is tourist-happy. Americans don't have as much vacation time to travel as Europeans do.

We are lucky to get 2 weeks of vacation after 10 years of working and in that short period of time we have to work around the house or go for a short trip to visit family. Retired Americans after age 65 finally have a chance to travel, if health allows them. Even after you have a baby, you have to be back to work in 3 weeks. In Poland you can get a whole year off. Women in Poland retire earlier than men. Many Americans travel to South American and North American countries as they are closer to travel, but not everyone is interested in traveling to Poland. Not everybody is rich enough or has the time to travel to every country in the world.

Some Poles have a belief that Americans don't travel abroad but how many, many Poles have never left Poland?

Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]


Depends where you are. I wouldn't go to bars in Poland if you look different. When they get drunk, they attack people who look and act different.

Some older, uneducated babas with missing teeth might mumble : "o rany, murzyn idzie, uciekajmy bo nas zgwałci"
Otherwise it's safe.

USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]


Chicago's Taste Of Polonia is bigger. I was at both so I know and anyone can say what they want. Chicago has more food stands, more events, more people. Milwaukee has a larger lake front area and is called Polish Festival. Chicago is called TOP


Sledz will supply you with those next time he comes over. we will take the brewery tour again. I'm sure he would like that :)

USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]


You mean "live" ones.
But hey, keep'em there. Whatever makes you happy. :)

USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]


Have fun visiting the cemetery!

USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]


Yes you are correct. Many Poles from Chicago settled down in Glenwood Springs, where there is a large natural Mineral Hot pool and they own motels there. Many hang around Denver as well.

USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]


Only old ones in Wisconsin. The young ones hang out where the money is.
Good luck! :)

USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]


yes, that's what it is. They like to pronounce it "poonchka"

USA, Canada / American Polonia. Wisconsin - the most Polish state? [112]


Yes, and most of them live in the cemetery.
That used to be true 100 years ago when the first Polish settled around Stevens Point, the first Polish newspaper originated here but the rest of the Poles are now in nursing homes. The town Polonia was formed because of the mass imigration of Poles. Their children don't speak any Polish. The most common words they know in Stevens Point are: "Piwa", "grzyba" and "ponchki".

There are no jobs in Wisconsin where you don't need to speak english, nobody speaks Polish here and they all moved out to Chicago, where you don't need to learn english because everywhere you go there are Poles. Milwaukee used to have several Polish stores, delis, restaurants, now they have only one. They got replaced by the Mexicans. There is an annual Polish fest in Milwaukee, but not nearly as populated as Chicago's TOP, which also sposors Polish picnics, Polish performers, Polish clubs, Polish movie festivals, etc. Milwaukee has nothing of this sort.

Stevens Point does have a sister city and a Polish club, but the few members in it are elderly people.
A few Poles are now moving into the Wisconsin Dells area, where they recently opened up a European Deli, which makes TWO POLISH STORES IN THE WHOLE STATE OF WISCONSIN!!! WOOHOOO!!

The very few Poles Wisconsin has cannot be compared to Chicago or New York

Language / A Polish female name (anna) [16]

That's what I would say sounds the closest

Love / Are all Polish men Psychos? [111]


No, not sad. Just educational.

Love / Are all Polish men Psychos? [111]


YES.
I knew one. That was enough for me. Lying, always hiding something, never would tell the truth, thinking he knows everything but knew nothing, took things apart and couldn't put them back together, deceiving, insinuating things that were not true, washing clothes by hand and hanging over the bath tub, never used deodorant, smelly, missing teeth, ugly and the list goes on and on....

There has to be some exceptions, but one rotten egg spoils the rest.

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

There has to be discipline, but physical is not always the best way. There are other ways to deal with disobedient children. You gotta be firm, but kind. Like with training horses. You start hitting them, they don't trust you no more and they become aggressive and behave the same way you do.

Children learn from parents, if the parent is kind and gentle and treats the child with respect and understanding what is right and wrong, they will have the same in return.

I don't believe in spanking. I was spanked when I was little a few times but I don't remember what for, just that I was unfairly physically hurt because I didn't know what I did wrong.

And it brings negative memories.

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Poor asian boy. Didn't get a toy.

Love / Are Polish girls forced to marry by their parents? [33]


Are you a teaher or a teacher?
You sure don't know how to write properly in english. You sound muslim or something, because that's how marriages are there.

Love / Are Polish girls forced to marry by their parents? [33]

No...

Love / My recent experience with a Polish girl. [231]


And the name KAROLINA!!!! :)

USA, Canada / US Green Card lottery for Poles? [19]


If you're German, why u want a Green Card?


Not in no near future. The illegal Poles have to return to their country first, too many illegals overcrowding the Chicago streets, that's why there won't be a lottery visa for a looong time for Poles.

News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]

I thought they make their own gas from all them gołąbki and bigosy

USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

Why is he here then if "America is sooo bad"? Prolly sitting here illegally. I know some Poles who are here and laugh at the US system, the people, they hate this and that, they say things are better in Poland and yet they are in no hurry to go back.

He is just another Polish complainer thinking that America owes him something, but not all are like him.

Polonia / Polonia in Siberia!! Any siberians please post. How is live for a pole in Siberia? News? [13]


Oh, but it is freezing cold!
My sister adopted a girl from Tomsk, and it was sooo cold that you had to stay in the hotel as much as possible because you stick your nose out and you freeze your snots and eyeballs right away. Everyone wore long, leather, fur covered coats to keep them warm. The windows were so covered with frost that you couldn't see anything. And the children were dressed up like little pingwins.