Awizo
The post office and the parcel locker, in the words on the slip, the label and the screen. Where a Russian speaker reads 'take away', the Pole means 'collect'.
przesyłka
noun · feminine
- EN
- shipment, item of post, parcel
- RU
- отправление, посылка
Twoja przesyłka czeka w paczkomacie.
Your parcel is waiting in the locker.
The word every tracking page uses, and it covers letters as well as boxes — RU посылка is only the box. Paczka is the parcel itself; przesyłka is anything in transit.
nadać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to post, to send off (a parcel); to confer
- RU
- отправить (посылку); присвоить
Chcę nadać paczkę do Mińska.
I want to post a parcel to Minsk.
The counter's verb: wysłać is fine in speech, but the form says nadanie and the receipt is potwierdzenie nadania. The same verb confers names and numbers: nadać imię, nadać numer PESEL.
nadawca
noun · masculine
- EN
- sender
- RU
- отправитель
Nadawca musi podać adres zwrotny.
The sender has to give a return address.
Masculine despite the -a, like kierowca: ten nadawca. The other box on the form is odbiorca, the recipient — the pair sits on every label, every przelew and every e-mail header.
list polecony
phrase · noun, masculine
- EN
- registered letter
- RU
- заказное письмо
Urząd wysłał decyzję listem poleconym.
The office sent the decision by registered post.
Polecony is literally 'recommended' — nothing to do with an order, whatever RU заказное suggests. This is how urząd, bank and court write to you: signed for, so delivery can be proved.
awizo
noun · neuter
- EN
- delivery notice, 'while you were out' slip
- RU
- извещение (о посылке)
W skrzynce było awizo z poczty.
There was a delivery slip from the post office in the letterbox.
Neuter and it declines like okno: nie było awiza. Fourteen days to collect at the branch named on it, dowód in hand; the powtórne awizo after seven is a reminder, not a new deadline.
odebrać
verb · perfective
- EN
- to collect, to pick up; to answer (the phone)
- RU
- забрать, получить; ответить (на звонок)
Odebrałem paczkę z paczkomatu w drodze do domu.
I picked up the parcel from the locker on the way home.
RU отобрать is to take away by force; Polish odebrać is the friendly opposite — you collect what is yours. Also the phone: nie odbiera means she is not picking up.
doręczenie
noun · neuter
- EN
- delivery (of a letter); service (of a document)
- RU
- вручение, доставка
Termin liczy się od dnia doręczenia pisma.
The deadline runs from the day the letter is delivered.
The bureaucratic word, and the trap behind awizo: a registered letter from urząd or court that you never collect counts as doręczone after 14 days anyway, and the clock starts from that day.
paczkomat
noun · masculine
- EN
- parcel locker
- RU
- постамат
Wyślij to do paczkomatu, tak jest taniej.
Send it to a parcel locker, it's cheaper that way.
An InPost brand name that became the word: lockers on every estate, opened with a kod odbioru from the app or an SMS. RU постамат exists but is rarer; here most parcels go this way.
za pobraniem
phrase · adverb
- EN
- cash on delivery
- RU
- наложенным платежом
Wysyłka za pobraniem kosztuje 5 zł więcej.
Cash on delivery costs 5 zloty extra.
Pobranie here is the courier collecting your money at the door — the box to tick when you do not trust the shop. The same noun is a blood draw at the lab and a download on a screen.
znaczek
noun · masculine
- EN
- postage stamp
- RU
- марка (почтовая)
Poproszę znaczek na list do Niemiec.
A stamp for a letter to Germany, please.
RU значок is a badge or a pin; the Polish stamp is a little znak, and the badge is odznaka or przypinka. Marka in Polish is a brand — three languages, three words, one circle.
Drill these ten · earlier morning · later morning
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