New An Post logo

Seanachai · 28-06-2019 10:28AM #1

Does anybody else think the new An Post logo is manky?

whisky_galore · 28-06-2019 10:35AM

Oh a sexy new logo, really inspired me to post some letters.

Waste of money.

28-06-2019 10:36AM

I don't mind the logo. What irritates me is that red-haired lady in those new ads...woeful cringe and annoyance!

Postgrad10 · 28-06-2019 02:04PM

I don’t think it’s any worse than the AIB logo. The facades look weird without their old signs. What was the point?

branie2 · 28-06-2019 02:11PM

It's nice

jim salter · 28-06-2019 02:13PM

They would be better served providing a proper, efficient and effective service and improving the shambles that is addressPal instead of this shít

Baron Kurtz · 28-06-2019 02:17PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I don't mind the logo. What irritates me is that ginger bitch in those new ads...woeful cringe and annoyance!

Angela Scanlon. She's been revitalised lately, popping up everywhere. Iirc, I think in that advert she passes a girl at a table having lunch and just taps her OWN card to pay for the girl's lunch. Strange enough.

Conchir · 28-06-2019 02:21PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I don't mind the logo. What irritates me is that ginger bitch in those new ads...woeful cringe and annoyance!

Don't really think there was a need for that choice of words, do you?

BarryD2 · 28-06-2019 02:25PM

jim salter wrote: »

They would be better served providing a proper, efficient and effective service.

+1. Yer man McRedmond wouldn't be out of place in the House of Lords. Cutting costs, closing POs and sorting centres but at same time raising their own charges at least annually - then spending the dosh on crap like this.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 28-06-2019 02:29PM

Seems ok to me, but then I'm not sure if I'm looking at the new one or the old one.

murpho999 · 28-06-2019 02:31PM

How can a logo that simply contain the words "an post" be described as manky?

jim salter · 28-06-2019 02:46PM

murpho999 wrote: »

How can a logo that simply contain the words "an post" be described as manky?

It's manky that it cost €5m....what a complete waste of money.

What's even more disturbing is that they have created a fictional character (persona) to 'connect' with a group pf young people they label 'millennials'

Seanachai · 28-06-2019 02:56PM

murpho999 wrote: »

How can a logo that simply contain the words "an post" be described as manky?

I think the the typeface and absence of yellow\gold is manky, not the words

Yurt2 · 28-06-2019 03:09PM

I won't called it iconic, but the old one was so ubiquitous and familiar that this new one is jarring to me. Probably will get used to it but the gold / green / white colour scheme will be missed.

I hate, hate, hate the ads though. Did they really have to use a homeless protest in the ads?!? *projectile vomits evreywhere*

The agency needs to be shot with a rusty bullet.

Not quite as bad as the Pepsi ad but getting there.

murpho999 · 28-06-2019 03:09PM

Seanachai wrote: »

I think the the typeface and absence of yellow\gold is manky, not the words

Why should it have yellow/gold.

It's a new logo , not a rehash of the old one.
The typeface is very modern.

People don't like change. After a while you'll just get used to it.

Will I Am Not · 28-06-2019 03:14PM

5m??? I’d have done it for 3.

Del2005 · 28-06-2019 03:23PM

BarryD2 wrote: »

+1. Yer man McRedmond wouldn't be out of place in the House of Lords. Cutting costs, closing POs and sorting centres but at same time raising their own charges at least annually - then spending the dosh on crap like this.

A Euro to post a letter when an email takes seconds and they think that a new logo will get people back to posting letters.

The last few weeks they have been using hired vans to deliver in my area. €5m would have bought a good few EV vans, which would be ideal for urban delivery and collection but no they get a new logo and still use filthy diesel.

When I order only I don't check the delivery companies logo I check how reliable they are.

Seanachai · 28-06-2019 04:18PM

murpho999 wrote: »

Why should it have yellow/gold.

It's a new logo , not a rehash of the old one.
The typeface is very modern.

People don't like change. After a while you'll just get used to it.

There's colour combinations that work, there's sfa I can do about it, I just would have thought that they'd come up with something better. The 'O' looks too much like the Maxol or Firefox logos. Are you a postmaster?

whisky_galore · 28-06-2019 05:36PM

murpho999 wrote: »

People don't like change.

It's not that, there was no need for it.

An Post's troubles aren't solved by a new typeface.

Fr_Dougal · 28-06-2019 05:40PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I don't mind the logo. What irritates me is that red-haired lady in those new ads...woeful cringe and annoyance!

Doing adverts for An Post even though she lives in London.

I prefer your unedited post, it was more apt!

Odhinn · 28-06-2019 05:44PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Seems ok to me, but then I'm not sure if I'm looking at the new one or the old one.

The new one. Unimpressive.

https://www.google.com/search?q=new+An+Post+logo&client=firefox-b-d&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=ivLbj2Ai5pbWyM%253A%252C1OPkgHL4DLVPLM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSVPtQLaoZt_NwQQmyD-XEmVVjvkw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT15G4z4zjAhX8ShUIHV70BKAQ9QEwAXoECAcQBg#imgrc=ivLbj2Ai5pbWyM:

Postgrad10 · 28-06-2019 05:45PM

They could have saved 200 jobs in Cork instead of the new design. Priorities?

Cee-Jay-Cee · 28-06-2019 05:50PM

jim salter wrote: »

They would be better served providing a proper, efficient and effective service and improving the shambles that is addressPal instead of this shít

AddressPal is slow and could be improved but overall the postal service in Ireland is excellent and considerably more efficient than any private courier service!

ILoveYourVibes · 28-06-2019 05:53PM

Green is a difficult color to work with. I would add some black imo.

Rubberchikken · 28-06-2019 05:55PM

i love our postal service i just think the powers that be dont think things out properly.
spending money on an agency to redesign something when it could be better spent elsewhere is wasteful.

Dravokivich · 28-06-2019 06:26PM

Postgrad10 wrote: »

They could have saved 200 jobs in Cork instead of the new design. Priorities?

I doubt it. How much would those 200 have earned? And paying for use of the site and everything that goes with it?

TuringBot47 · 28-06-2019 06:36PM

Some new hire marketing idiot thinking that the decline of an ancient business model unwilling to keep up with modern consumer demand is due to a logo.

Nikki Sixx · 28-06-2019 06:37PM

It’s genius and badly needed. Take an old logo and make it slightly different. Subtle change and yet an uncanny resemblance to the old logo. Bravo.

SEPT 23 1989 · 28-06-2019 07:28PM

They must have literally spent tens of minutes editing that t

Lackadaisical · 28-06-2019 07:29PM

Total waste of money. Their old logo was highly identifiable too.

jim salter · 29-06-2019 08:30AM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

AddressPal is slow and could be improved but overall the postal service in Ireland is excellent and considerably more efficient than any private courier service!

Unfortunately I have to disagree.

3 times in 6 months addressPal have taken 3+ weeks to deliver parcels from the UK. Reordered the items and they arrived within 4 days with Parcel Motel. Haver also used Parcel Wizard and much more prompt.

Domestic services seem ok but I have also experienced no post for 2 weeks when my postman is on holidays (cc bills and other important doc's just left on a shelf somewhere) so much so that I have spoken to my postie (total gent) about it and he now writes his initials on my post and the date.

An Post have not moved with teh times and the only thing that is saving them is that they have a monopoly on general domestic postal services.

Most couriers I have dealt with (with the HUGE exception of the cowboys in Fastway) have been fantastic as have the pallet services to the UK and Europe.

An Post is taking the píss with public money

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