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im just wondering has anyone had bad experience with An post delivery
is it strange to be waiting a week and a bit for your package and is there anything i can do to find out where is it

is it lost

Victor

Talk to the sender. Ask them what company they used to send it. Get a tracking number.

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Victor wrote:

Talk to the sender. Ask them what company they used to send it. Get a tracking number.

he told me he sent it from the GPO

Victor

Victor wrote:

tracking number.

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The_Conductor

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote:

im just wondering has anyone had bad experience with An post delivery
is it strange to be waiting a week and a bit for your package and is there anything i can do to find out where is it

is it lost

I sent a package (2kg) from the GPO to Blanchardstown.
It took 12 days in total to arrive.
It was a mobile phone I sold on the For Sale forum here.
It did arrive, in good condition, eventually.......

It could very well still turn up- don't give up hope.

Undercoverguy

Ya tend to only get a tracking number if you send it by registered post or by SDS or something large is sent. If it was your normal everyday A4 sized thing chances are it fell into a black hole somewhere. I posted something by SDS before and it never arrived to the reciever, they gave me the money for the product cos i had an insurance thingy out on it.... Some kid in africa prob has a eircom router now lol

Anyway call the GPO on (01) 705 8012 and tell them where it was posted and where it was going and they should be able to give ya a list of sorting offices it should have passed through. You'll have to call each one (should only be a handful cos he posted it in GPO) on the list the give ya and ask if it there.... Most prob it will show up in one of the offices.

If it was a larger package and if he was givin a receipt when it was posted then you can go to http://www.anpost.ie/common/track_package.htm type in the number and you'll find out where it buggered off too.

I think that deserves some REPS lol

The_Conductor

Since the closure of the Naas road sorting office for anything SDS related- the delays, particularly in Dublin deliveries, has increased enormously. An Post customer service had denied there was a problem 3 weeks ago- but have now admitted there is a problem.

Rich coming from the company looking for a 25% increase in the cost of posting a letter......

daveg

I have the best one yet. I decided to hose down the footpath outside our front door last week. We have a few plant pots outside. One of them is empty/ceramic. It was upside down. When I went to move it out dropped a package!! Upon closed inspection I found it was my DVD order from Cdwow that had never arrived. You know whats worse? The package fits in the letterbox !!

RuggieBear

daveg wrote:

I have the best one yet. I decided to hose down the footpath outside our front door last week. We have a few plant pots outside. One of them is empty/ceramic. It was upside down. When I went to move it out dropped a package!! Upon closed inspection I found it was my DVD order from Cdwow that had never arrived. You know whats worse? The package fits in the letterbox !!

now that's ****ed up.... :eek:

Oral Slang

One day my brother was walking into our house when some neighbour from across the square came up & asked what was the house no.?
Apparently the postman had given this guy a parcel for our house, because there was no one in. We had never seen this neighbour before & had no idea who he was. (we were only living in the estate about 2 months at this time!)
Only that he was really honest, we'd never have had any idea he had the parcel. The postman hadn't got him to sign anything.
When my brother rang up to complain the post office didn't give a damn & were very unhelpful. What a joke!

rabbitinlights

I had something delivered from hongkong a few months back and it took about 28 hours to get from hong kong to shannon and 9 days to get from shannon to galway. i could have walked to shannon and back in that time!!!

Coconut

I needed something to arrive in Stockholm by Sunday at the latest.

On Wednesday, I used An Post/SDS's EMS courier service with "guaranteed time certain delivery" so it would get there the next day (Thursday), at a cost of €40(!) for a 200g package.

It arrived on Monday.
I have written to them and yet again am waiting, waiting...

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rang up GPO they told me i need a tracking number
what next from here lads

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Undercoverguy wrote:

Ya tend to only get a tracking number if you send it by registered post or by SDS or something large is sent. If it was your normal everyday A4 sized thing chances are it fell into a black hole somewhere. I posted something by SDS before and it never arrived to the reciever, they gave me the money for the product cos i had an insurance thingy out on it.... Some kid in africa prob has a eircom router now lol

Anyway call the GPO on (01) 705 8012 and tell them where it was posted and where it was going and they should be able to give ya a list of sorting offices it should have passed through. You'll have to call each one (should only be a handful cos he posted it in GPO) on the list the give ya and ask if it there.... Most prob it will show up in one of the offices.

If it was a larger package and if he was givin a receipt when it was posted then you can go to http://www.anpost.ie/common/track_package.htm type in the number and you'll find out where it buggered off too.

I think that deserves some REPS lol

ill give you reps for that cheers mate

jor el

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rang up GPO they told me i need a tracking number
what next from here lads

Without a tracking number there is no way to find out if the letter was delivered, or where it went missing. So there's probably not a lot you can do.

It's most likely been delivered, just to the wrong address. I'm forever getting letters for the wrong house delivered. Often, it's for a neighbour, but a few times I've gotten letter that should have been delivered to completely different housing estates. I even got a letter once that was addressed:

Jim Murphy (not actual name as I can't remember what it was)
22 Rahoon

and that was it. Now how the hell it ended up in my house I don't know. The number was 22, but Rahoon is not a real place that I'm aware of, certainly isn't in Limerick anyway.

Sorry to not be of much help, but the likelihood of you getting your letter is probably very slim.

The_Conductor

Package just arrived for me- its supplies for my aquarium at home. Stamped in London on the 4.04.05- its taken 22 days to arrive. It arrived in the Irish postal system on 6.04.05 (it has Parcelforce tracking- as far as Ireland). An Post have sat on it for a little shy of 3 weeks.

What the hell are they up to?

penguinbloke

It's really gone crap.

Regular letters are taking up to a week to get delivered, the week before last sent a card on tuesday it arrived the following monday.

It's just getting rediculous.

sceptre

jor el wrote:

Rahoon is not a real place that I'm aware of, certainly isn't in Limerick anyway.

It's in Galway.

The_Conductor

I had an issue of New Scientist delivered among my normal pleb post at home- the publication date is 16.04.05
I used have it delivered the day following publication (todays delivery is the issue with a bar of gold on the front cover that was available in shops a forthnight ago).

TerrorFirmer

I send alot of packages via normal and registered....all of them seem to get there next day or so?

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the fella who sent the game told me he sent it by normal post so how can i track that

Mothman

smccarrick wrote:

Package just arrived for me- its supplies for my aquarium at home. Stamped in London on the 4.04.05- its taken 22 days to arrive. It arrived in the Irish postal system on 6.04.05 (it has Parcelforce tracking- as far as Ireland). An Post have sat on it for a little shy of 3 weeks.

What the hell are they up to?

I can beat that :mad: :mad:

Postmarked 22nd March in England, I got it today, 27th April. 36 days it took, and it went Air mail!!, as the sender said, probably circumnavigated the globe.

Victor

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the fella who sent the game told me he sent it by normal post so how can i track that

You can't and he can't even tell if it was sent.

Ask for your money back.

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Victor wrote:

You can't and he can't even tell if it was sent.

Ask for your money back.

dublin 24 wont give me my money back

look at my sig