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Anyone else experiencing postal delays in receiving packages from the UK?

nlgbbbblth · 2005-10-11 22:29:30

Moderators - move this if you feel it inappropriate. Three orders shipped from sendit.com on 27 and 28 September, Some DVDs won on ebay posted from London on 1 October. No sign of any of them. Anyone else?

11-10-2005 10:29pm

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Moderators - move this if you feel it inappropriate.

Three orders shipped from sendit.com on 27 and 28 September,
Some DVDs won on ebay posted from London on 1 October.

No sign of any of them.

Anyone else?

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#2 11-10-2005 10:33pm

Basq

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An Post have been having serious problems as of late... well, more than usual!

I'd blame it on that!

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#3 11-10-2005 10:51pm

beer enigma

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Brutal !!!!!

three weeks for the average parcel at the moment........

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#4 11-10-2005 10:56pm

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yeah its a joke, probably wanna start posting the christmas cards now, or with a bit of luck they might recieve the ones posted last year in time for this year

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#5 11-10-2005 10:58pm

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there is a thread on this in the online buying/auctions section...a card and a small package - 16 and 19 days respectively from the uk...atrocious

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#6 11-10-2005 11:00pm

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I bought lots of things from Amazon this year but found the packages to come in very late lately.

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#7 11-10-2005 11:00pm

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I was just going over my play.com account and noticed there are lots of things that were posted on the 27th last month that haven't arrived yet.

Oddly... I had a few things posted from them on the 5th of October and 1 of them managed to arrive on it's own... don't know what happened to it's brothers yet though...

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#8 11-10-2005 11:06pm

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Ye its really slow, anyone know whats going on? The stuff I send to the uk seems to get there in decent time though.

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#9 11-10-2005 11:09pm

ando

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still waiting on a small adapter that I payed for on the 3rd. I have noticed it in the last month long delays in the post coming from anywhere outside Ireland tbh

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#10 12-10-2005 3:54am

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There is some sort of unofficial dispute at Portlaoise which handles all international mail.

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#11 12-10-2005 4:01am

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jrey1981 wrote:

there is a thread on this in the online buying/auctions section...a card and a small package - 16 and 19 days respectively from the uk...atrocious

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=307941

there you go

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#12 12-10-2005 6:13am

Hobbes

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Yea I am waiting on a package. Over a week past the estimated delivery date.

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#13 13-10-2005 2:58pm

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its a holy disgrace im waiting on something that was posted 27th october from ebay in uk. whats awful is now I dont know if its delayed or if the seller is dodgy!! but even worse royal mail are now claiming that someone signed for it!! grrrrrrrrrr
oh and my bro got a letter from cork that took 2 weeks.

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#14 13-10-2005 2:59pm

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heres a question though--- you always hear that an post is experiencing "difficulties". now i would have thought thses days theres less stuff being send by post what with email and all so wats causing the delays??

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#15 13-10-2005 3:10pm

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I'm still waiting on a parcel sent by a friend of mine from the UK on the 16th of last month.

It's more than a tad silly.

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#16 13-10-2005 3:11pm

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I've had one package take three weeks from the UK, then a recent one that took four days! Hmm.

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#17 13-10-2005 5:05pm

Hobbes

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Got an email reply from them. Probably form mail.

Thank you for email. I am sorry to hear of the delays with your mail.It
is not possible for to track a ordinary mail item in the postal system
as we process up to two million mail items per day. However if this item
is not delivered in the next few days then may I please suggest that you
complete a "Missing Damaged Delayed Mail" form which is available from
any post office. When completed please send the form to the freepost
address provided on the form and our administration staff will
investigate the matter on your behalf. An Post is committed to quality
of service in mail processing and deliveries. As the final part of the
company's automation strategy, a major re-organisation of mail
processing has taken place. This, coupled with increased volumes at
this time of year, has resulted in mail not meeting despatch/delivery
times.I am sorry that I cannot be of any further help at this point. We
understand the inconvenience this causes but ask that you accept our
apologies.

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#18 13-10-2005 5:07pm

Karoma

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definitely form mail;but what else did you really expect?
Give it another week, then fill out the form ..and prepare to get nowhere fast

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#19 13-10-2005 5:25pm

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A package posted from Amazon.com on august 22nd still hasnt arrived for me, I've given up on it and gotten a refund. Hopefully it'll arrive eventually and i'll get my dvd for free! Doubtful though, it's definitely lost.

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#20 13-10-2005 5:50pm

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I bought a gift set dvd Sept from play.com, never arrived. I got an email a few days saying that Royal Mail returned it to them.
Bloody dvd never even reached our shores
Play.com have said they will refund the cost of the purchase to my credit card.

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#21 13-10-2005 5:54pm

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There is major problems in an post, I reckon Harney has got a hidden agenda to privatise an post and there is infighting. It currently takes 10 days for a letter to get from Tralee to Killarney,
I'm considering starting a pony express myself

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#22 13-10-2005 6:42pm

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Well - I'm in the UK and there's no problem sending post out of here - I sent a parcel to Skopje, Macedonia by Airmail and it got there within a week, and apparantly they didn't even have to bribe the postman or anything!

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#23 13-10-2005 8:12pm

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21 days here.

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#24 13-10-2005 9:47pm

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Still waiting on a letter that was sent last Thursday from the UK.

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#25 13-10-2005 9:48pm

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Got some stuff (Books!) from play in about a week, which is ok i guess.

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#26 13-10-2005 9:50pm

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bucks wrote:

Still waiting on a letter that was sent last Thursday from the UK.

Letters don't seem to be as bad. A cheque posted from England last Friday arrived with me on Tuesday. It's anything bigger than a letter that's getting held up.

16 days and counting.

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