A 68-year-old hunter from Pordenone he experienced firsthand a rather singular story, yet another example of how influential the bureaucracy is in Italy. Man has renewed the rifle port license and, as expected every six years, he also had to pay a sum to the State Treasury. The 68-year-old paid 1 euro and 26 cents, but at the police station he was told that in recent times there had been an increase of one cent as regards the total (therefore 1 euro and 27 cents).
To solve the problem, the hunter made an adjustment to pay the hundredth of the difference, a situation bordering on paradoxical. Alle Poste paid the amount due, in addition to the commission for the amount paid on the bulletin (another 1,50 euros to be precise).
Simply put, man endured two queues for a single penny, just a few months after the definitive abandonment of these coins (together with those of two cents), considered useless and little used. There bureaucracy it has entered the scene in all its complications and oddities, in situations like this perhaps it would be necessary to use more common sense.