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  • #1322
    newbie18892
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭newbie18892


    I finally got both of the parcels I was waiting for yesterday. One was from Smyths ordered on St. Stephen's Day that was supposed to be delivered within 2-4 days. The other was a parcel I was waiting on from the U.K. that the seller had to resend on January 5th. So 6 days to get here. The original parcel she sent on December 15th has been lost somewhere in between London and here.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1323
    Padraig Mor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,787 ✭✭✭Padraig Mor


    The Continental Op wrote: »
    The problem with An Post seems to be that when they get overloaded its as if they take a load of mail and dump it somewhere to reduce the load then somehow they find it again once things start to go back to normal. Recent postings aren't affected yet there is still stuff stuck in the system somewhere from weeks back.

    Completely wild guess here put perhaps massaging their 'on time' figures? i.e. the 'old' parcels are already late so prioritise the recent stuff so that's delivered on time and makes their figures look better than if they prioritised backlog, in which case the recent stuff may not then be delivered on time either?
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1324
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Car99 wrote: »
    Easons probably buy them off Amazon then ship them to you.

    go way, are you serious ?
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1325
    grogi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,618 ✭✭✭grogi


    fryup wrote: »
    go way, are you serious ?

    No
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1326
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,331 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I’m waiting on like 7 packages oops but no sign of delivery for any so far lol
    Post edited by whiterebel on


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  • #1327
    Tauriel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,674 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    fryup wrote: »
    i'm still waiting for books that i ordered from easons pre-xmas

    i thought that easons being ireland based that the delivery would be fairly quick ??

    I ordered books from Easons and Kennys on the same day. Kennys arrived after a few days, still waiting for Easons delivery, tracker says An Post have yet to receive the details.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1328
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,946 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    mustang shelly wrote: »
    I ordered books from Easons and Kennys on the same day. Kennys arrived after a few days, still waiting for Easons delivery, tracker says An Post have yet to receive the details.

    I ordered from Easons a week ago and just came across this thread. My order hasn't been received by An Post yet either by the looks of things
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1329
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,105 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    I ordered from Easons a week ago and just came across this thread. My order hasn't been received by An Post yet either by the looks of things

    More likely An Post haven't bothered scanning it yet - what you don't have you can't lose
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1330
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,232 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    zell12 wrote: »
    DailyMail - Royal FAIL: Homes are left without mail for up to a MONTH in 28 delivery 'blackspots' as huge rise in online shopping overwhelms postal service amid soaring staff absence due to Covid

    Careful,your not allowed say that covid could affect postal service's and their staff.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1331
    Anniearenyouok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 ✭Anniearenyouok


    Ordered from Smyths on the 7th of January, a small item. It won't let me track it, as it says;

    "An Post (ROI) / Royal Mail (NI) does not provide a live tracking link for smaller packages posted to your mailbox.

    Expect delivery in 2 - 4 working days.
    No signature required.
    Items will be posted to your mailbox"

    Just a waiting game, have to say An post and UPS have been excellent on the run up to Xmas.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


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  • #1332
    SPDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    The Continental Op wrote: »
    The problem with An Post seems to be that when they get overloaded its as if they take a load of mail and dump it somewhere to reduce the load then somehow they find it again once things start to go back to normal. Recent postings aren't affected yet there is still stuff stuck in the system somewhere from weeks back.

    That's COMREG rules .

    Once an item is late according to their measuring then it doesn't matter how late it is, whether it it is a day late or 3 weeks late , the fine An Post pay or indeed any delivery company pay is the same .

    So you fit sorting any late material around that day's items
    Completely wild guess here put perhaps massaging their 'on time' figures? i.e. the 'old' parcels are already late so prioritise the recent stuff

    No massaging as everyone knows what the "on time" figures are
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1333
    AnTarbh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭AnTarbh


    Loads of Christmas cards took about 15 days to post within Ireland.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1334
    jelutong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭jelutong


    I ordered something from Amazon.UK on Jan 6th. An Post delivered it this morning.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1335
    Tauriel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,674 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Got a Delivery Notification from An Post today to say that the books from Easons were handed over today.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1336
    nicnac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭nicnac


    fryup wrote: »
    i'm still waiting for books that i ordered from easons pre-xmas

    i thought that easons being ireland based that the delivery would be fairly quick ??

    Me too.. I have 5 orders in with Easons (total of 15 books) and have only received 2 books. The issue is that they have stock in the UK, so orders are caught up in the whole Brexit issue.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1337
    nicnac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭nicnac


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    I ordered from Easons a week ago and just came across this thread. My order hasn't been received by An Post yet either by the looks of things
    I got this response from Easons....

    "
    I apologise for the continued delay with your order.

    Theses books are part of our extended range and were shipped from a logistics centre in the UK.

    Regrettably, we have been experiencing extended delays in processing items sourced from the UK.
    All outstanding orders are in transit to Ireland and will be sent directly to an An Post sorting depot for sorting and delivery.
    Once received and scanned by An Post Tracking will be available.

    We expect all outstanding deliveries to be received by An Post this week and deliveries enacted shortly thereafter.
    Please note that tracking will not be available until the package has been scanned for delivery by An Post
    "

    Note, they said the same thing last week..
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1338
    andrewfaulk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭andrewfaulk


    nicnac wrote: »
    I got this response from Easons....

    "
    I apologise for the continued delay with your order.

    Theses books are part of our extended range and were shipped from a logistics centre in the UK.

    Regrettably, we have been experiencing extended delays in processing items sourced from the UK.
    All outstanding orders are in transit to Ireland and will be sent directly to an An Post sorting depot for sorting and delivery.
    Once received and scanned by An Post Tracking will be available.

    We expect all outstanding deliveries to be received by An Post this week and deliveries enacted shortly thereafter.
    Please note that tracking will not be available until the package has been scanned for delivery by An Post
    "

    Note, they said the same thing last week..

    Was going to order some books from easons that were published by osprey publishing from the Uk.. didn’t go ahead with the order in the end as I guessed the were drop shipping from osprey or ordering from osprey to ship on to me.. would imagine they do similar with more niche/lower demand items
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1339
    SketchyPrince
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭SketchyPrince


    Most regular postage taking about two days with the last while, am I right in saying?
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1340
    nicnac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭nicnac


    andrewfaulk wrote: »
    Was going to order some books from easons that were published by osprey publishing from the Uk.. didn’t go ahead with the order in the end as I guessed the were drop shipping from osprey or ordering from osprey to ship on to me.. would imagine they do similar with more niche/lower demand items
    An item I ordered from Easons has taken 10 days to get from UK to An Post. Now I have to wait for An Post to deliver it. I have some parcels which have been sitting with An Post since 5th Jan.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1341
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,500 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    emrys wrote: »
    Received this morning a parcel posted to me on December 15th with tracking from Finland. Tracking code never registered on the track and trace until after it was delivered this morning.

    Another package from the same company/location sent following day yet to arrive and not appearing on the track and trace.

    Rediculous service

    Over the last few weeks I've been in and out to some of the post offices with work, the amount of post is crazy. It gets dropped off by two or three trucks and a couple of vans in the evenings and it's just pallet after pallet of parcels. I'm surprised delivery times aren't longer
    Post edited by whiterebel on


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  • #1342
    BigAl81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭BigAl81


    Is anyone else getting the "An Post have attempted to deliver your package" notification, but in fact, An Post did not make any attempt?

    It's happened me twice in the last few days. I've been at home at the time, and have a video doorbell so can prove they didn't attempt to deliver anything!

    Perhaps too busy and hoping we'll all just come to them for collections instead?

    Thanks,
    Al.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1343
    Pen Rua
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭Pen Rua


    BigAl81 wrote: »
    Is anyone else getting the "An Post have attempted to deliver your package" notification, but in fact, An Post did not make any attempt?

    It's happened me twice in the last few days. I've been at home at the time, and have a video doorbell so can prove they didn't attempt to deliver anything!

    Perhaps too busy and hoping we'll all just come to them for collections instead?

    Thanks,
    Al.

    This happened a lot to me in November. In reality, the postman didn't get a chance to get to me so had to return to depot. It happened a couple of times for one package.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1344
    Hogzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    Pen Rua wrote: »
    This happened a lot to me in November. In reality, the postman didn't get a chance to get to me so had to return to depot. It happened a couple of times for one package.

    Same to me in Dublin 8. Iv always wondered do they enter it in the system as an attempted delivery in order to skew data in terms of the amount of undelivered parcels. It never seems to happen me with Amazon but usually smaller businesses or person to person post.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1345
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    got 3 different text messages in a row today for 3 different parcels, maybe the backlog has been eased??
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1346
    Darc19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    fryup wrote: »
    got 3 different text messages in a row today for 3 different parcels, maybe the backlog has been eased??

    No internal irish backlog. They can handle 2m+ parcels a week with their additional systems.

    We are finding 98%+ next day delivery which is as good as you get.


    There are loads of delays on all international parcels - both coming in and going out of Ireland as the airfreight capacity simply is not there due to flight cancelations. Same applies to every country.

    Royal Mail in the uk is a shambles with up to two weeks before some items even start their journey
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1347
    aoife1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭aoife1991


    Darc19 wrote: »
    There are loads of delays on all international parcels - both coming in and going out of Ireland as the airfreight capacity simply is not there due to flight cancelations. Same applies to every country.

    Royal Mail in the uk is a shambles with up to two weeks before some items even start their journey

    I noticed this, I returned something from an UK seller in my local post office on the 11th Jan and I haven't had any tracking updates since 12th Jan "Your post has left An Post DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12". I don't expect it will be in the UK before February.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1348
    johndoe99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    So with Covid, I ordered some vape liquids, from a shop in Waterford City, with express delivery, yesterday; Monday morning. I received an update from An Post track and trace hours later that my package was accepted in Waterford DSU, 5 hours later another update states "we have your post in Waterford DSU". All is going great i think, but then again its posted in Waterford for delivery in Waterford, so its going to be fast. So i'm expecting delivery today Tuesday.

    Then I receive an update stating today "Your delivery has been sorted in Portlaoise Mail Centre, Laois"

    I get onto live chat to be informed that all post regardless of destination is relayed to Laois for sorting. I never new this. Has it always been this way?
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1349
    mackeire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭mackeire


    All post in the south east gets collected from the local DSU and goes to portlaoise to be sorted.

    From there it goes to the DSU for where it's addressed to.

    Express post is usually guaranteed overnight delivery but since this pandemic started, some items take a day longer as the system is overloaded with people posting stuff.
    Post edited by whiterebel on


  • #1350
    BigAl81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭BigAl81


    BigAl81 wrote:
    Is anyone else getting the "An Post have attempted to deliver your package" notification, but in fact, An Post did not make any attempt?

    The package turned up today, just one day later. Not too bad given all that's going on in the world!
    Post edited by whiterebel on


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  • #1351
    Dublinandy3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭Dublinandy3


    I post stuff I sell on adverts and get a fair few too. Stuff from abroad is obv delayed not because of an post but the last week or so all an post stuff has been usual delivery times (eg next day when it says next day)
    Post edited by whiterebel on


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