An Post Parcel - Wrong Destination on Receipt

milli milli · 20-08-2015 4:52pm #1

Hi
Im just after posting 2 parcels to 2 separate addresses - 1 in Cork and 1 in Northern Ireland.
I'm just after looking at the receipts now, and I see the Destination for both parcels states Northern Ireland.

I was chatting to the girl at the counter so perhaps she got flustered and put in the wrong destination? Although she did mention that one was ireland and the other N. ireland.
The Cork parcel MUST arrive tomorrow - if it gets shipped off to N. Ireland - it will be bad news.
I rang An Post customer service but their office is closed til tomorrow morning.

Can anyone tell me - maybe someone who worked in An Post - if the destination on receipt is what's looked at? Or what system is used?
I imagine the barcodes are looked at first and then the actual address is read next?

boardzz · 20-08-2015 4:55pm

It will make no difference. The receipt it only for payment/charging purposes. They just look at the address for delivery.

RichT · 20-08-2015 5:13pm

Did you write the addresses on the parcels yourself, or did The PO print off labels with the addresses on them?

If you wrote them yourself, then they will be the addresses that will be used to sort/deliver your parcels.

Regarding postage rates, if you have paid for both for N. Ireland, then you are more than covered for a delivery in Cork. The other way round might have caused you a problem (with the one going to N.Ireland)

delahuntv · 20-08-2015 6:56pm

Same price all ireland.

Only the address written on the parcel will be used and once it was posted before collection time, it will be delivered tomorrow.

L1011 · 20-08-2015 7:06pm

milli milli wrote: »

The Cork parcel MUST arrive tomorrow - if it gets shipped off to N. Ireland - it will be bad news.

Posted at "just now" at 5:52 - so presumably about 5pm?

There is a good chance it won't get there tomorrow in the first place.

As the others have said, the address is what matters. The receipts are printed seperately.