Parcel Motel equivalent now for delivery to Northern Ireland?

Rechuchote

Is there an equivalent service in Northern Ireland to what Parcel Motel used to do - receive your package or parcel in a box where you can collect it?

mondeoman72

I saw an advert for a crowd in Newry. Know nothing about them though.

https://www.deliverme.ie/

Rechuchote

Yowsa, £25 per collection! There's another crowd called Oohpod that are more reasonable, but they don't have anywhere very central.

Doodah7

oohed in Jonesboro but you have to collect the parcel yourself.

If using Amazon, for most items you can select one of the Post Office in Newry (or anywhere) as a collection point and it is free to use. No point paying for the Oohed service when the PO is free!

muffler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120721649#Comment_120721649

Just to add that there are restrictions on the size and weight of items coming from Amazon to pickup locations in NI.

Rechuchote

My Dublin postman jams all packages into the letterbox, leaving them sticking half out if they don't fit in - despite the printed notice on the letterbox saying "Parcel box below". Last week an irreplaceable package went missing. An Post said it was scanned at the house; I've asked neighbours in case it went to the wrong house, but no luck. I can only conjecture that he did the usual and someone saw it, opened it and said "Oooh, that's nice, I'll have that!"

Not an expensive item, relatively speaking, but irreplaceable… ah, good news, it mysteriously turned up at the door - found it when I went out this morning. Perhaps some of the neighbours I asked realised they had it.