Read this if you use AddressPal or DPD Parcel Wizard services...

dowtchaboy

(Apologies if this is old news)

I was wondering what would happen with ParcelMotel, AddressPal etc after Jan 1st, and AFAIK nobody is saying anything definite.

Well I just saw this on the AddressPal site:

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From January 1st 2021 Post Office/Collection Point addresses can no longer be used.
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So it looks like the €3.95 option with collection and payment at your local Post Office is gone from Jan 1st. There is still PO collection option but the price will be higher than €3.95


Here's the full text:

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January 2021 Update
Deliveries:

From January 1st 2021 deliveries from the UK are changing due to customs.
When shopping online use your Home Delivery AddressPal virtual address (see below for address examples).

From this date, your Post Office/Collection Point AddressPal virtual address can no longer be used when importing items.

However, once the parcel has been processed we will let you know by email or text and you will then have the option to redirect your parcel to any of the following:

A Post Office/Collection Point
A Parcel Locker
A neighbour
A safe place
Or select an alternative date for delivery

This will apply for UK and USA AddressPal items.

Payment details:

From January 1st 2021 payment for all AddressPal items must be taken from a Credit/Debit card that is saved on your AddressPal account. Without a valid card your parcel cannot be delivered. You will only be charged once we process your AddressPal deliveries.

Note: All UK items will be subject to Revenue customs rules from January 1st 2021.
If there are customs fees related to your item, you will be contacted with more information.

From the 1st of January 2021 AddressPal is updating with more delivery options, offering you choice and flexibility. Click here for details.
From this date, all deliveries from the UK will cost €6.50 for items up to 20kg.

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jdon72

DPD Parcel Wizard is only €3.85 from UK and it delivers to your door

sweetie

jdon72 wrote: »

DPD Parcel Wizard is only €3.85 from UK and it delivers to your door

that's closing at end of the month

jdon72

sweetie wrote: »

that's closing at end of the month

Where'd you see that?

keos

11th of Dec more precisely

jdon72

jdon72 wrote: »

Where'd you see that?

It's on your dashboard when you log in.

Thread to be moved/closed in 3... 2...

gmisk

jdon72 wrote: »

Where'd you see that?

As already dpd parcel wizard is ending 11th dec I got notification via text as used them recently (they managed to lose half the contents of the box btw....)

The Continental Op

Just means I won't use AddressPal anymore. I'm certainly not giving a 3rd party company working for An Post access to my bank account.

BronsonTB

As negotiations are still ongoing at the moment, exactly how goods between Ireland (South) & the UK cannot be answered difinitively as of today.


Worst case is without any agreement,, there will be a lot more tariffs & duty to pay.
Best Case - they come to agreement & we pay less tariffs & duty.


It's all up in the air but Irish delivery companies are being prepared now for a no deal & acting accordingly.

Doodah7

Thanks OP, bought 10.

Dempo1

jdon72 wrote: »

DPD Parcel Wizard is only €3.85 from UK and it delivers to your door

And that's finished i completely on the 11th December, all customers were notified about 2 weeks ago, pain in the ass

long_b

The Continental Op wrote: »

I'm certainly not giving a 3rd party company working for An Post access to my bank account.

Where did you see that?

Padraig Mor

Dempo1 wrote: »

And that's finished i completely on the 11th December, all customers were notified about 2 weeks ago, pain in the ass

I wasn't notified (and I'm a very heavy user) and neither were loads of others.

Dempo1

long_b wrote: »

Where did you see that?

My reading of the ops post is existing card details registered on the account will be used, I don't see any change here apart of course the new prices?

Dempo1

Padraig Mor wrote: »

I wasn't notified (and I'm a very heavy user) and neither were loads of others.

I'll see if I can get the notification, hang on

Dempo1

Padraig Mor wrote: »

I wasn't notified (and I'm a very heavy user) and neither were loads of others.

Recieved by email on the 20th November, just part of email

Here goes....

Dear Parcel Wizard Member,

Today we're bringing you an Important Service Update regarding the DPD Virtual Address.

We will no longer be offering our Virtual Address Service from December 11th 2020. This is due to customs clearance requirements for parcels travelling into the Republic of Ireland from Great Britain which will come into effect post Brexit.



In order to prepare for this change, please review the following information -


Any parcels arriving to the Virtual Address up to and including December 11th will be processed as normal.

Please ensure to update any online Address Books where you have indicated that the Parcel Wizard Virtual Address is your default address.

When ordering online between now and December 11th, check the transit times to ensure that your parcel will arrive before the Virtual Address Service ceases - if it won't, please do not use the Virtual Address.​​​​

If you have an unused balance on your Virtual Address account after the service ceases, this will be refunded directly to you via SagePay before the end of January 2021. You don't need to take any action - the refund will be automated.​​​​​​



Thank for using our Virtual Address Service over the years. And don't forget, after the 11th December you can still use all of the other great DPD Parcel Wizard options - up to date messaging on when your parcel will arrive, managing your delivery schedule, routing your parcel to a particular address and much more.

Best regards,
The Parcel Wizard Team @ DPD

antodeco

I knew it was happening because of boards. Was never notified. I use it around 3-4 times a week. So I'd have expected to have been told during 1 of the email alerts

mirrorwall14

antodeco wrote: »

I knew it was happening because of boards. Was never notified. I use it around 3-4 times a week. So I'd have expected to have been told during 1 of the email alerts

Same. My husband didn't believe me, he was so convinced he'd have to have been told

The Continental Op

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Same. My husband didn't believe me, he was so convinced he'd have to have been told

I didn't know my wife had a boards account

Dempo1

The Continental Op wrote: »

I didn't know my wife had a boards account

, I'll say nothing

dowtchaboy

Doodah7 wrote: »

Thanks OP, bought 10.

:p
Did you really mean "This isn't a BA?":D
It isn't but on the other hand a very high proportion of Bargains on this forum are ones that take a bit of smart footwork to obtain - false identities, free SIMs used once, and getting stuff shipped via AP or PM, so I thought it was relevant.

no changes yet from Parcel Motel?

Also, is amazon going to continue operating as normal - i.e. order from the UK site?

harmless

glasso wrote: »

no changes yet from Parcel Motel?

Also, is amazon going to continue operating as normal - i.e. order from the UK site?

Parcel motel are forced on making as much over Christmas as possible. They have introduced an increased charge(€4.50) for the Christmas period.


Expect them to react to the brexit transition when things are totally clear.

Either more price hikes or cancellation of the service if it is not viable.

mirrorwall14

The Continental Op wrote: »

I didn't know my wife had a boards account

Ha ha lol. He definitely knows I have a boards account . I modded a few years back under a different name and he listened to my wailing/gnashing of teeth and I still send him bargain alerts !

harmless

harmless wrote: »

Parcel motel are forced on making as much over Christmas as possible. They have introduced an increased charge(€4.50) for the Christmas period.

Expect them to react to the brexit transition when things are totally clear.

Either more price hikes or cancellation of the service if it is not viable.

small bit of a tangent but effectively related what really annoys me these days is the amount of Amazon Prime marked items that don't ship free to Ireland and particularly where it's not worth it to use say parcel motel for one item to get it but since you have no control over how Amazon ship items if you order say just 2 items together in the hope that they would be dispatched together you could end up with 2 redirect charges

Fly_away

BronsonTB wrote: »

As negotiations are still ongoing at the moment, exactly how goods between Ireland (South) & the UK cannot be answered difinitively as of today.


Worst case is without any agreement,, there will be a lot more tariffs & duty to pay.
Best Case - they come to agreement & we pay less tariffs & duty.


It's all up in the air but Irish delivery companies are being prepared now for a no deal & acting accordingly.

There are going to be big changes with or without an agreement.

If there's an agreement, tariffs will be eliminated on the vast majority of products. They will remain at zero.

But tariffs are not the main issue - it's the non tariff barriers like rules of origin which are going to make trade much more costly because of all the documentation and checks that will be required. Even in the best case scenario of a deal being reached, the parameters of the agreement being negotiated guarantees that trade between the UK and Ireland is going to be prohibitively expensive for many products.

ejmaztec

M and M Direct must be really confident that there's going to be a deal or they wouldn't recently be offering access to express delivery for €12.99 a year :pac:

Hamsterchops

dowtchaboy wrote: »

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January 2021 Update
Deliveries:

From January 1st 2021 deliveries from the UK are changing due to customs.
When shopping online use your Home Delivery AddressPal virtual address (see below for address examples).

From this date, your Post Office/Collection Point AddressPal virtual address can no longer be used when importing items.

This will apply for UK and USA AddressPal items.

Payment details:

Note: All UK items will be subject to Revenue customs rules from January 1st 2021.
If there are customs fees related to your item, you will be contacted with more information.

From the 1st of January 2021 AddressPal is updating with more delivery options, offering you choice and flexibility. Click here for details.
From this date, all deliveries from the UK will cost €6.50 for items up to 20kg.

All the above bold lettering is fatally flawed and partially wrong.

Seing as Northern Ireland is part of the UK, all their talk of prices from the UK is completely wrong!

From Great Britain would have made sense, I'm surprised they have made such a fundamental error. Northern Ireland (UK) will not be affected by our collection prices from Great Britain.

Somebody should tell them.

shanec1928

Dempo1 wrote: »

And that's finished i completely on the 11th December, all customers were notified about 2 weeks ago, pain in the ass

Eh no they weren’t. I found out via boards. Still haven’t gotten anything from dpd and up until late last week they didn’t have anything on there site.

Fly_away

Hamsterchops wrote: »

All the above bold lettering is fatally flawed and partially wrong.

Seing as Northern Ireland is part of the UK, all their talk of prices from the UK is completely wrong!

From Great Britain would have made sense, I'm surprised they have made such a fundamental error. Northern Ireland (UK) will not be affected by our collection prices from Great Britain.

Somebody should tell them.

Yes they should specify GB. Although there is still some ambiguity as to how (or even if) the UK will uphold the NI protocol.

Daibheid

With three out of five parcels I had sent via this service apparently lost in the last month or so I think the real reason is Addresspal has just admitted they’re incompetent and thrown in the towel.
Zero customer service.
To be avoided at any price.

gussieg

Damn this has to have become the biggest blow from brexit that affects me and those around here personally. No more firesticks.

Davy

Leaving this thread here for other posters to see it as so many don't seem to be aware.

To continue the discussion use the links below for Parcel Wizard, AddressPal and Parcel Motel threads.

• AddressPal thread is here discussing no more pickup option in Post offices from January 1st.
  
  
• DPD Parcel Wizard is closing the Virtual Address in NI from Friday December 11th
  
  
• Related service Parcel Motel thread is here discussing peak season surcharge to €4.50 for the peak season.

Closed



Further details:

AddressPal:
From January 1st 2021 deliveries from the UK are changing due to customs.
When shopping online use your Home Delivery AddressPal virtual address.

From this date, your Post Office/Collection Point AddressPal virtual address can no longer be used when importing items.

IMPORTANT NOTICE - DPD Parcel Wizard:
Due to BREXIT constraints our UK Virtual address will cease to operate from Friday, 11th December 2020

Please ensure that you remove this address from any retailer's address books

If you are using the address prior to that date, check the lead times from the retailer before placing your order

Any outstanding balances will be credited back to you by the end of January

Parcel Motel:
Please be advised that effective from 4th November until 31 December 2020, when collecting a parcel a peak season surcharge will be applied to the base price, changing the price from €3.95 to €4.50.
All other prices will remain the same.

During this time, we can no longer process very large items measuring more than 95 X 48 X 55cm (roughly the size of a wheelie bin) and such items will not be accepted in our receiving centres in Newtownabbey or Dublin.