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Dhenalau

Got a "We attempted to deliver your item" from An Post yesterday.
Was working from home waiting for them and just to be sure, I checked my security cameras. Nobody came to the door...

This is a package from Amazon and it was supposed to be delivered yesterday, I assume An Post has a contract with them and it's easy to enter a fake delivery attempt to keep the stats up...

Inquired online, chat wit a nice customer service person trying to get more info, he could not get an answer to his call to the local post office and send an email asking for more details.

Took the time to go to the local Post Office where I was feed BS by the guy saying they only leave a notice after the third attempt to deliver and a
"Come back on Wednesday, if you do not get a notice"

Let's see if try to deliver today.

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whiterebel

podgerella wrote: »

Thanks OrlaK, sorry you're having so much trouble. I would suspect paying for a courier service would be a better option for you. I do expect my package to arrive at some stage, just a shame that An Post can't do as good a job as USPS. I would've expected if it arrived in Dublin Airport on the 22nd that I could get it in Dublin City by the 24th. I guess the sender can't foresee the issues and hold ups with the Irish postal service, even when I requested priority posting! Unfortunately, the item I ordered isn't something that can be easily replaced! or even at all. Best of luck, hope you get your items soon.

Have you looked back I through any previous posts in this thread? No one knows who USPS are giving it to in the US, whether they have event had flights into London or Ireland. As far as they are concerned, handed over to the airline means it has arrived in Ireland. An Post may not have even seen them yet.

podgerella

whiterebel wrote: »

Have you looked back I through any previous posts in this thread? No one knows who USPS are giving it to in the US, whether they have event had flights into London or Ireland. As far as they are concerned, handed over to the airline means it has arrived in Ireland. An Post may not have even seen them yet.

Thanks Whiterebel, yep looked through previous posts, so just wanted to get a recent update. It's arrived in Dublin according to USPS emails and they then go to An Post. But as yet it has not ben scanned by An Post. I called An Post and they have told me they have not yet received it. 'Yet', is what I'm holding onto.

I've everything crossed.

Darc19

podgerella wrote: »

Thanks Whiterebel, yep looked through previous posts, so just wanted to get a recent update. It's arrived in Dublin according to USPS emails and they then go to An Post. But as yet it has not ben scanned by An Post. I called An Post and they have told me they have not yet received it. 'Yet', is what I'm holding onto.
I've everything crossed.

Usps will only know that it has processed to the airport. They won't know if it has got onto an aircraft.

Letters get priority, followed by small packages and then larger parcels.

I had my sister send me something from Washington. It was about the size of a box of tissues. It left 3rd Dec, it arrived on Tuesday. (not needed until March

)

Her Christmas card (or happy holidays card) left Dec 22nd and arrived yesterday.

Adamcp898

Does anybody know if Express Post items will arrive outside of the “regular” post runs?

Waiting on an Express item due to be delivered in Dublin today but can see from tracking that it’s in the parcel hub. Saw the post man go by already earlier this morning so wondering will it be Monday before I see it now or will there be another post later today for Express items?

micks_address

Adamcp898 wrote: »

Does anybody know if Express Post items will arrive outside of the “regular” post runs?

Waiting on an Express item due to be delivered in Dublin today but can see from tracking that it’s in the parcel hub. Saw the post man go by already earlier this morning so wondering will it be Monday before I see it now or will there be another post later today for Express items?

Typically our postman drops all the non registered post first then comes back with any tracked deliveries an hour later

fritzelly

Is An Post still experiencing big delays?
Had something posted on the 22nd Dec and still yet to receive (Louth to Dublin)

Need a Username

I need to get somethings from IKEA but they wouldn’t be delivered until the 25th - and most likely they’d come with An Post so does that mean it would be much later than the 25th?

gerard2210

Need a Username wrote: »

I need to get somethings from IKEA but they wouldn’t be delivered until the 25th - and most likely they’d come with An Post so does that mean it would be much later than the 25th?

Probably not, An Post have caught up on the backlog, so you should have it on the 26th/27th. An Post aren't the only company delivering for IKEA.

Need a Username

gerard2210 wrote: »

Probably not, An Post have caught up on the backlog, so you should have it on the 26th/27th. An Post aren't the only company delivering for IKEA.

I thought An Post delivered all the smaller items.

Anyway, thank you. Two weeks is a long wait but good to know there won’t be further long delays.

[Deleted User]

miggle wrote: »

In fairness to An Post they are doing a fantastic job when you consider the colossal increase in mail this year.
They've never once lost a parcel on me.

No they are not. Every other company that deals with post or deliveries have handled the situation like troopers. 500% increases on last year, everybody put their head down and got it done. Extra people hired to handle the situations. 100s of unpaid hours put in to ensure people got their presents for Christmas. Hours taken away from their families over the month of December. To get parcels from one country to Another in time for Christmas.

Then you have An post. Who cant get Parcels from one part of Dublin to Another part of Dublin in the space of 4 weeks due to "backlog" Why, because they don't answer to anybody.

ACitizenErased

Still waiting for a parcel to Germany sent on the 7th of December to be delivered :rolleyes:

The_Brood

IDK what's going. Massive delays on my end in receiving packages, all from December. From various sellers, Amazon but others as well. Not much info anywhere on what's happening. Is it covid, Brexit.....but it's not like we have an alternative. There's a lockdown, people can't buy in store. No one is giving answers.

Gru

was waiting on a parcel from the US,
sent Dec 18th Arrived today via an post.

Christmas cards sent first week of December Cork - Cork arrived last week

Christmas cards sent to Australia from An Post early December (one sent the week before the other) the later ones have arrived last Friday the earlier one did not arrive yet.

Pen Rua

A neighbour has been waiting on a small envelope / parcel to be delivered since before Christmas. It only arrived today. It was not carried in the parcels round, but the normal post delivery. It was sent from within Ireland.

corkie

An Post warns customers may be waiting weeks for parcels

"An Post has warned consumers that they could be waiting weeks to receive parcels posted before Christmas..............

The company expects to be receiving incoming Christmas parcels and letters throughout all of January."

zell12

corkie wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0111/1188962-an-post-says-christmas-mail-backlog-continues/

There are reports of letters being posted from one Dublin address to another Dublin address taking up to a month to be delivered.

Mollywolly

Mollywolly wrote: »

I bought some ink from a Dublin company that shipped on 1st December. Their confirmation email said to contact An Post if there was a problem with the tracking.

I've waited patiently (being mindful of Christmas/Covid delays) and there has been no update on tracking. I managed to get hold of someone at An Post via webchat this morning who said they hadn't received the package and to contact the sender.

Just an update on the above: the package didn't arrive and finally on 27th December the sender re-shipped it via courier at my request. Tracking never updated but it was delivered on 31st December.

Still waiting for the original An Post tracking to update :rolleyes:

fryup

corkie wrote: »

An Post warns customers may be waiting weeks for parcels

and look at the picture of the depot...there's no one there???

all out sick with covid??

davetherave

fryup wrote: »

and look at the picture of the depot...there's no one there??? all out sick with covid??

Stock photo, from at least the 6th of December 2019.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2019/1206/1097439-an-posts-new-dublin-parcel-hub/

PmMeUrDogs

Ordered something from china on 20th December, which arrived this morning.

Had a letter posted to me from less than 1km away, on 17th December, that also arrived today.

Ordered something from the uk today, tracking says 25th to receive but I'm assuming at this rate I'll be waiting longer.

fryup

i'm still waiting for books that i ordered from easons pre-xmas

i thought that easons being ireland based that the delivery would be fairly quick ??

JP Liz V1

I received Christmas cards today from in Ireland posted early mid December

New2Dubs

Today:
Received package from UK, ordered 5 Jan.
Received Christmas card from UK, posted 20 Dec.
Three cheers to Brexit Britain &#55358;&#56642;

fritzelly

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I received Christmas cards today from in Ireland posted early mid December

Ridiculous that they cannot even manage to deliver domestic mail on time all the while increasing prices because they are now "providing a better service"
And not a mention of it from them, only talking about delays to international mail - why can they just now come out and say everything is delayed instead of pretending there isn't an issue with their service period.

zell12

DailyMail - Royal FAIL: Homes are left without mail for up to a MONTH in 28 delivery 'blackspots' as huge rise in online shopping overwhelms postal service amid soaring staff absence due to Covid

The Royal Mail has revealed there are 28 delivery 'blackspots' across the UK which are suffering from limited postal services as more of its workforce is affected by Covid-19.
'This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe. In such cases, we always work hard to get back to providing our usual level of service as quickly as we can.'

Car99

fryup wrote: »

i'm still waiting for books that i ordered from easons pre-xmas

i thought that easons being ireland based that the delivery would be fairly quick ??

Easons probably buy them off Amazon then ship them to you.

ACitizenErased

They seem to be speeding up national deliveries alright. Parcel sent from Dublin yesterday afternoon arrived here in Cork this morning.

The Continental Op

ACitizenErased wrote: »

They seem to be speeding up national deliveries alright. Parcel sent from Dublin yesterday afternoon arrived here in Cork this morning.

The problem with An Post seems to be that when they get overloaded its as if they take a load of mail and dump it somewhere to reduce the load then somehow they find it again once things start to go back to normal. Recent postings aren't affected yet there is still stuff stuck in the system somewhere from weeks back.

whiterebel

Unfortunately that seems to be the way with all of them. A modicum of intelligence would suggest you work first in first out, but An Post certainly don't seem to. PM no better. Even if you added a cage of older stuff into the new stuff every day or two you would at least keep it moving. There is no excuse to taking a month to get post across Ireland.

Night owl gal

Night owl gal wrote: »

still waiting for a parcel from Switzerland to arrive

finally arrived a few days ago. Yay!