An Post - I figured it out

Tzardine

Something that is giving me a laugh this morning. I ordered something last week. It is being sent with An Post from Donegal to Dublin.

It was shipped from Donegal and received in Portlaoise. For some reason it has now arrived in London and is being shipped from London to Dublin.

Good old An Post. They literally put it in a truck from Portlaoise to Dublin, but instead of delivering it to me in the city centre, they have loaded it onto a plane, sent it to London, then put it on another plane to send it back to Dublin.

No wonder they cost a bloody fortune compared to other carriers.

Wanderer78

Tzardine wrote:

No wonder they cost a bloody fortune compared to other carriers.

It went on an adventure, be happy for it

Franz Von Peppercorn II

That sounds insane. Insane enough for me to doubt it.

Tzardine

OSI wrote: »

If they cost so much more then why would you use them?

Carrier of choice by the sender. Not up to me.

Odelay

I think they should have someone personally track every single package. That way there won’t be the very odd package that accidentally goes astray. Maybe it didn’t actually go to London, maybe it was an error with the tracking app?

Anyway my proposal of one person to track each package will ensure this never happens again and will surely save AN Post millions.

Tzardine

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

That sounds insane. Insane enough for me to doubt it.

RhubarbCrumble

I was annoyed with An Post yesterday. I'd ordered a dress online and assumed it was coming in a delivery van.
Instead I arrived home just in time to find the postman on his bike squeezing, and I mean SQUEEZING it through the letterbox.

Not asked to sign for it or anything. It could easily have gone into the wrong house (as has happened here before) and I would have had absolutely no idea where it was.

Just looked at the tracking there and the last thing it's showing is that your parcel arrived in Dublin at 11.45 on Monday night.

B-D-P--

Odelay wrote: »

I think they should have someone personally track every single package. That way there won’t be the very odd package that accidentally goes astray. Maybe it didn’t actually go to London, maybe it was an error with the tracking app?

Anyway my proposal of one person to track each package will ensure this never happens again and will surely save AN Post millions.

Or just have An Post set up a Financially sound way of bringing package from A to B, Rather A - London - B

Tzardine

B-D-P-- wrote: »

Or just have An Post set up a Financially sound way of bringing package from A to B, Rather A - London - B

Thats the thing. They actually went A - B - London - B

Utter Consternation

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

I was annoyed with An Post yesterday. I'd ordered a dress online and assumed it was coming in a delivery van.
Instead I arrived home just in time to find the postman on his bike squeezing, and I mean SQUEEZING it through the letterbox.

Not asked to sign for it or anything. It could easily have gone into the wrong house (as has happened here before) and I would have had absolutely no idea where it was.

Just looked at the tracking there and the last thing it's showing is that your parcel arrived in Dublin at 11.45 on Monday night.

Are you ok after that?

Sounds very traumatic.

BarryD2

Tzardine wrote: »

Something that is giving me a laugh this morning. I ordered something last week. It is being sent with An Post from Donegal to Dublin.

It was shipped from Donegal and received in Portlaoise. For some reason it has now arrived in London and is being shipped from London to Dublin.

Good old An Post. They literally put it in a truck from Portlaoise to Dublin, but instead of delivering it to me in the city centre, they have loaded it onto a plane, sent it to London, then put it on another plane to send it back to Dublin.

No wonder they cost a bloody fortune compared to other carriers.

Take it up with the McRedmond fella who runs An Post. He also seems to think it's OK to close the collection points where the public can put goods into his delivery system. I drove for over 100 miles the other day with a package in the car, passed through several small towns/villages and not a Post Office to be seen. Well they were there but boarded up.

whiskeyman

Doesn't yer one Angela Scanlon from the new ads live in London?
Maybe all pieces of post now get send directly to her first so she personally approves them before being sent on their merry way...

Cee-Jay-Cee

In fairness to AnPost, they’re considerably quicker than the courier services. 99% of post is delivered next day, couriers generally take 3 to 4 days regardless of where/when it was sent and couriers are no cheaper and in many cases more expensive.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Tzardine wrote: »

Insane.

Borderfox

I find them much better than any of the other services

murpho999

Looks like human error to me. Somebody put package in wrong sack.

Or it's incorrect address?

Or you have been given the wrong tracking number by sender?

Tzardine

Address is correct. I checked that.

It's quite a big and heavy box being sent, so unlikely to be in the wrong sack.

Could be the wrong tracking number. I will ask the sender to confirm.

kneemos

Next day from Donegal to London ain't bloody bad to give then their dues.

Tzardine

I have checked with the sender. The tracking number is right. She says that this is not the first time they have seen this.

Hector Savage

So does eircode work yet ?

branie2

Very annoying

punisher5112

It's a bit mad but sure you aren't out of pocket or aren't not going to receive the item....

I find An post great to be honest.

Delivery from Amazon and so on are fast and I get let know where it is and if delivery was attempted or not.

Huge improvement to years ago.

Graces7

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

In fairness to AnPost, they’re considerably quicker than the courier services. 99% of post is delivered next day, couriers generally take 3 to 4 days regardless of where/when it was sent and couriers are no cheaper and in many cases more expensive.

will not have a word said against An Post. I now only order stuff if they use An Post. The postman knows every house and road in deep rural whereas eg fastway get lost, expect you to go and meet them.. last time i used a courier they dumped 2 parcels over a gate into a field

And no couriers come over to the island.

I order regularly from 2 firms in Dublin. The parcels are delivered to my door the day after i order. even out here.

kneemos

Graces7 wrote: »

will not have a word said against An Post. I now only order stuff if they use An Post. The postman knows every house and road in deep rural whereas eg fastway get lost, expect you to go and meet them.. last time i used a courier they dumped 2 parcels over a gate into a field

And no couriers come over to the island.

I order regularly from 2 firms in Dublin. The parcels are delivered to my door the day after i order. even out here.

Do you not get air drops out there?

mikhail

Hector Savage wrote: »

So does eircode work yet ?

Eircode is a scam run by a private company. An Post has nothing to do with it.

Tzardine

mikhail wrote: »

Eircode is a scam run by a private company. An Post has nothing to do with it.

What is the scam. Genuinely interested.

Guy:Incognito

mikhail wrote: »

Eircode is a scam run by a private company. An Post has nothing to do with it.

A scam how? I find it works really well.

Wait. You're not the "I had this other system that worked great and I wanted to give it to the people free" guy, are you?

chrissb8

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

A scam how? I find it works really well.

Wait. You're not the "I had this other system that worked great and I wanted to give it to the people free" guy, are you?

Yeah, he's the Nikola Tesla of post.

odyssey06

mikhail wrote: »

Eircode is a scam run by a private company. An Post has nothing to do with it.

Not entirely true to say An Post have nothing to do with it...
Eircodes are assigned to new property addresses using a valid postal address and verified geo-locations. An Post collects information on new and existing buildings, as well as changes to existing addresses and Ordnance Survey Ireland provides the geo-locations for these buildings. An Post GeoDirectory, issue a new release of the GeoDirectory database file on a quarterly basis to Capita Business Support Services Ireland, trading as Eircode, in accordance with their licence agreement.

pjdarcy

mikhail wrote: »

Eircode is a scam run by a private company. An Post has nothing to do with it.

I find eircodes are very handy when trying to find an exact address on google maps

Tony EH

Just wait until An Post are killed off completely and you have to deal with the private companies like Fastway.

You'll be on your knees begging for them to come back.

Tony EH

Tony EH wrote: »

Just wait until An Post are killed off completely and you have to deal with the private companies like Fastway.

You'll be on your knees begging for them to come back.

The. Worst. Company. Ever.

Coillte_Bhoy

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

I was annoyed with An Post yesterday. I'd ordered a dress online and assumed it was coming in a delivery van.
Instead I arrived home just in time to find the postman on his bike squeezing, and I mean SQUEEZING it through the letterbox.

Not asked to sign for it or anything. It could easily have gone into the wrong house (as has happened here before) and I would have had absolutely no idea where it was.

Just looked at the tracking there and the last thing it's showing is that your parcel arrived in Dublin at 11.45 on Monday night.

Was there a requirement for a signature and also how is the postman supposed to know its a dress and not to put it through letterbox? Why didnt you leave instructions when ordering?

Coillte_Bhoy

odyssey06 wrote: »

Not entirely true to say An Post have nothing to do with it...
Eircodes are assigned to new property addresses using a valid postal address and verified geo-locations. An Post collects information on new and existing buildings, as well as changes to existing addresses and Ordnance Survey Ireland provides the geo-locations for these buildings. An Post GeoDirectory, issue a new release of the GeoDirectory database file on a quarterly basis to Capita Business Support Services Ireland, trading as Eircode, in accordance with their licence agreement.

The Mails delivery service doesnt use it, i dont think people realise that it would make no sense for An Post to try and use this system as the basis for their delivery service, and anyway it would be impossible to use it efficiently.

mikhail

Tzardine wrote: »

What is the scam. Genuinely interested.

An Post don't use them. Emergency services don't use them. They exist largely to sell the database to direct marketers.

murpho999

mikhail wrote: »

Eircode is a scam run by a private company. An Post has nothing to do with it.

mikhail wrote: »

An Post don't use them. Emergency services don't use them. They exist largely to sell the database to direct marketers.

Total and utter rubbish that is lacking any facts.

Eircodes work.

They are used by Emergency Services.

Here the ambulance service ask people to use Eircode.

Have a look here at this page from Dept of Communications, Climate Action & Enviornment

Here Eircode announce use by Emergency Services

Page from An Post with an Eircode addreess finder field.

Lots of anecdotal evidence around of Eircode getting services quicker to locations.

So please enlighten me more of these scams please?

punisher5112

People are mistaken as at the launch they weren't been used but more and more services use it now and rightly so.

L1011

mikhail wrote: »

An Post don't use them. Emergency services don't use them. They exist largely to sell the database to direct marketers.

You are required to use an Eircode to get a Deliverybox from An Post. They use them for other purposes

Emergency services find them incredibly useful for locating rural addresses or in confusing estates. One was requested and given when I needed an ambulance in December '17.

You are rabbitting a line from immediately after introduction when *nobody* used them. Takeup here compared to takeup of the UK post codes is much quicker. And the database is not something they can sell.

G_R

murpho999 wrote: »

Total and utter rubbish that is lacking any facts.

Eircodes work.

They are used by Emergency Services.

Here the ambulance service ask people to use Eircode.

Have a look here at this page from Dept of Communications, Climate Action & Enviornment

Here Eircode announce use by Emergency Services

Page from An Post with an Eircode addreess finder field.

Lots of anecdotal evidence around of Eircode getting services quicker to locations.

So please enlighten me more of these scams please?

There was an episode of the ambulance fly on the wall documentary on TV3 where the guy on the phone could only find the house using eircode cos it was in the middle of no where and when he hung up the call goes "I don't care how much they cost, thank f^ck for eircodes"

kneemos

Am Post use codes for incomplete addresses.

Darc19

Tzardine wrote: »

Address is correct. I checked that.

It's quite a big and heavy box being sent, so unlikely to be in the wrong sack.

Could be the wrong tracking number. I will ask the sender to confirm.

Either mis-sorted or address badly written.

But probably mis-sorted.

Errors happen.

Darc19

mikhail wrote: »

An Post don't use them. Emergency services don't use them. They exist largely to sell the database to direct marketers.

I can absolutely say 100% emergency services use them. I am rural. My wife collapsed last Sunday week. (she has fully recovered)

They asked for eircode and didn't need anything else.

Due to our location, it probably saved 10 minutes. It wasn't as serious as initially feared, but in some cases those 10 minutes are life saving.

Nothing surprises me now

My sister renewed her passport on line last Thursday around 12.30pm. At end of renewing it, it said "passport being processed". It will be sent by An Post. The postman delivered it the next day around 12 noon! She, nor I could believe the service, both from DFA and An Post. I think An Post are great, far superior to postal services in UK and some European ones.

my3cents

Had one very important package sent from the UK go to Iceland first, but when you see Ireland written side by side with Iceland then you's wonder why that doesn't happen more often.

The Icelandic postal service stamped the item " Not Iceland"

FrancieBrady

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

I was annoyed with An Post yesterday. I'd ordered a dress online and assumed it was coming in a delivery van.
Instead I arrived home just in time to find the postman on his bike squeezing, and I mean SQUEEZING it through the letterbox.

He was squeezing his bike through your letterbox? :eek::eek: Jeepers!

RhubarbCrumble

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Was there a requirement for a signature and also how is the postman supposed to know its a dress and not to put it through letterbox? Why didnt you leave instructions when ordering?

Yes. A signature WAS required.

I didn't 'leave instructions when ordering' because anytime I've ever ordered from the company before, deliveries have come via an An Post courier. Why would there be any need for me to 'leave instructions'?
It wasn't the fault of either myself or the company I bought it from.
It was down to An Post being lazy and taking the easy way out.

RhubarbCrumble

FrancieBrady wrote: »

He was squeezing his bike through your letterbox? :eek::eek: Jeepers!

Indeed! And not a euphemism in sight

FrancieBrady

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Indeed! And not a euphemism in sight

I am ever the gentleman!

Coillte_Bhoy

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Yes. A signature WAS required.

I didn't 'leave instructions when ordering' because anytime I've ever ordered from the company before, deliveries have come via an An Post courier. Why would there be any need for me to 'leave instructions'?
It wasn't the fault of either myself or the company I bought it from.
It was down to An Post being lazy and taking the easy way out.

Ok, fair enough re signature.

Atoms for Peace

maybe it going to Dublin, Ohio.

freshpopcorn

We've a great post woman. Can't fault her.
She may leave packages out but she know's when not to also.

Couriers are a different story tough. You met the odd okay one but in generally they aren't great.