What's the story behind returning bottles on Sunday?

You're overthinking it a bit. Sunday is the only day most people have time to deal with the annoying logistics. During the week you're juggling work, errands, and the Pfand bottle bag just sits in the corner of your kitchen getting in the way. Come Sunday, you finally have the brain space to haul it out.

Also worth noting that the bottle return machines are notoriously finicky. They reject bottles that are too crushed or have the wrong barcode, and then you're stuck waiting for an employee to come override it. Nobody wants to deal with that hassle on a Tuesday evening when they're just trying to grab milk. So it all piles up for Sunday, when you've got the patience and the time to wrangle with the machine for 15 minutes.

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yeah sunday is basically the designated pfand day for most people. during the week you're either at work or too tired to drag a sack of empties across town. plus a lot of the smaller spätis or kiosks won't take bottles if they're not from their own stock, so the big edeka or rewe is your only real option. sunday mornings are chill, you grab coffee, walk over, reclaim your deposit, maybe grab a brötchen next door. it's less about having nothing to do and more about it being the one day where the timing actually works without rushing

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it's mostly a sunday ritual thing honestly. pfandflaschen are a pain to haul around during the week when you're rushing to work or doing quick errands, so people just stockpile them. the edekas near stations are always busy on sundays because that's when everyone's off and remembers they need to clear out their balcony or kitchen corner. plus some folks treat it as a little pocket money mission, like "oh i've got 3€ worth of bottles, might as well grab a döner after"

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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