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whiterebel · 07-01-2021 08:15PM

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 · 07-01-2021 08:32PM

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 · 07-01-2021 10:33PM

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 · 08-01-2021 01:12PM

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 · 08-01-2021 02:12PM

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 · 09-01-2021 06:20AM

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 · 10-01-2021 03:35AM

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 · 10-01-2021 08:45AM

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 · 10-01-2021 03:18PM

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.

10-01-2021 09:52PM

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 · 11-01-2021 02:35PM

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

The_Brood · 11-01-2021 02:47PM

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 · 11-01-2021 02:51PM

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 · 11-01-2021 03:07PM

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 · 11-01-2021 04:53PM

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 · 11-01-2021 05:18PM

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 · 11-01-2021 06:53PM

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 · 11-01-2021 07:26PM

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 · 11-01-2021 10:36PM

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 · 11-01-2021 11:33PM

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 · 11-01-2021 11:49PM

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 · 12-01-2021 12:34AM

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

New2Dubs · 12-01-2021 12:37AM

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

fritzelly · 12-01-2021 01:21AM

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 · 12-01-2021 12:35PM

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 · 12-01-2021 02:48PM

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 · 12-01-2021 03:59PM

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

The Continental Op · 12-01-2021 04:03PM

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 · 12-01-2021 04:12PM

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 · 12-01-2021 04:47PM

Night owl gal wrote: »

still waiting for a parcel from Switzerland to arrive

finally arrived a few days ago. Yay!

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