Where can you buy postage stamps after 5:30pm?

MakeEmLaugh

Does anyone know where in Dublin city you can buy postage stamps after 5:30pm? The nearest post-office to my workplace closes between 1:00pm and 2:30pm, so I never have the chance to buy them.

January

Some Spars sell stamps, Easons also.

GPO opens late too I think?

JohnDx

What do ya need stamps for anyway?

efb

Centra at Ha'apenny Bridge has a stamp machine selling individual stamps

AnonoBoy

JohnDx wrote: »

What do ya need stamps for anyway?

The postal system requires them for the sending of letters and packages.

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Post

roadsmart

A few shops carry them, and the GPO usually opens til 8.

January

JohnDx wrote: »

What do ya need stamps for anyway?

Non'ya business.

Piliger

Machines in Stephens Green Shopping Centre

Also shops that have Post Offices inside them usually sell a few stamps over the counter.

JohnDx

JohnDx wrote: »

What do ya need stamps for anyway?

Yeah OP, and what's the letter about? ( :P )

schemingbohemia

Reads on Nassau Street sell them too, they're open late on a Thursday as far as I remember. You have to buy them downstairs.

Lawrence1895

Mace do them as well, they just take a 10% surcharge

Miaireland

A lot of Hotels will have them in reception for guests to purchase.

Piliger

Lars1916 wrote: »

Mace do them as well, they just take a 10% surcharge

Is it legal to sell stamps higher than their face value ?

BeerNut

Piliger wrote: »

Is it legal to sell stamps higher than their face value ?

If it isn't, the people who sell to stamp collectors are going to be in quite a lot of trouble.

Piliger

BeerNut wrote: »

If it isn't, the people who sell to stamp collectors are going to be in quite a lot of trouble.

I just spoke to the PO in Dublin. It is illegal to sell day to day stamps for more than the face value.

TheBandicoot

It's probably also frowned upon to enforce minimum amounts for use of a debit/credit card, to add surcharges to mobile phone top-ups, to require a purchase before allowing an online Leap top-up collection, and various other greedy little money makers the convenience store industry of Ireland is likes to have.

Teyla Emmagan

The newsagents beside l'ecrivan has them. Otherwise just ask a woman for one.

I will sell you standard postage stamps at any time of the day. 20 quid each, you collect.

Piliger

TheBandicoot wrote: »

It's probably also frowned upon to enforce minimum amounts for use of a debit/credit card, to add surcharges to mobile phone top-ups, to require a purchase before allowing an online Leap top-up collection, and various other greedy little money makers the convenience store industry of Ireland is likes to have.

No. They are all perfectly legal transactions.

Fieldsman

I always buy a 100 pack of them, then top up when running low

BeerNut

Piliger wrote: »

I just spoke to the PO in Dublin. It is illegal to sell day to day stamps for more than the face value.

And when you asked which law stated this, they said..?

Piliger

BeerNut wrote: »

And when you asked which law stated this, they said..?

Contract between sellers and PO. Only designated sellers are allowed sell Stamps.

JohnDx

Firstly, a certain person on this thread is very cheeky.
Well Makeemlaugh, did you get a reply yet from the letter ya sent or are you still looking for stamps?

BeerNut

Piliger wrote: »

Contract between sellers and PO.

Such a contract wouldn't apply to, say, a hotel that buys stamps in the post office and then sells them on to guests at a profit.

Piliger wrote: »

Only designated sellers are allowed sell Stamps.

If this were true it would have to be in legislation, wouldn't it? And if it were true, An Post wouldn't have told retailers who wanted to sell stamps to buy them at the post office, would they?

NuMarvel

An post have a list of the automated self service centres on their website
http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/MainContent/Personal+Customers/Sending+Mail/Postal+Service+Centre.htm.

Piliger

BeerNut wrote: »

Such a contract wouldn't apply to, say, a hotel that buys stamps in the post office and then sells them on to guests at a profit.

If this were true it would have to be in legislation, wouldn't it? And if it were true, An Post wouldn't have told retailers who wanted to sell stamps to buy them at the post office, would they?

Yes. We're all liars. :rolleyes:

theKillerBite

Just write 'FREEPOST' onto the envelope

January

Can we all either answer the question asked or not post at all? This is not the forum for 'smart' quips.

power pants

January wrote: »

Can we all either answer the question asked or not post letters at all? This is not the forum for 'smart' quips.

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