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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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newbie18892

I finally got both of the parcels I was waiting for yesterday. One was from Smyths ordered on St. Stephen's Day that was supposed to be delivered within 2-4 days. The other was a parcel I was waiting on from the U.K. that the seller had to resend on January 5th. So 6 days to get here. The original parcel she sent on December 15th has been lost somewhere in between London and here.

Padraig Mor

The Continental Op wrote: »

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.

Completely wild guess here put perhaps massaging their 'on time' figures? i.e. the 'old' parcels are already late so prioritise the recent stuff so that's delivered on time and makes their figures look better than if they prioritised backlog, in which case the recent stuff may not then be delivered on time either?

fryup

Car99 wrote: »

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

go way, are you serious ?

grogi

fryup wrote: »

go way, are you serious ?

[Deleted User]

I’m waiting on like 7 packages oops but no sign of delivery for any so far lol

Tauriel

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 ??

I ordered books from Easons and Kennys on the same day. Kennys arrived after a few days, still waiting for Easons delivery, tracker says An Post have yet to receive the details.

yosser hughes

mustang shelly wrote: »

I ordered books from Easons and Kennys on the same day. Kennys arrived after a few days, still waiting for Easons delivery, tracker says An Post have yet to receive the details.

I ordered from Easons a week ago and just came across this thread. My order hasn't been received by An Post yet either by the looks of things

fritzelly

yosser hughes wrote: »

I ordered from Easons a week ago and just came across this thread. My order hasn't been received by An Post yet either by the looks of things

More likely An Post haven't bothered scanning it yet - what you don't have you can't lose

marklazarcovic

zell12 wrote: »

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

Careful,your not allowed say that covid could affect postal service's and their staff.

Anniearenyouok

Ordered from Smyths on the 7th of January, a small item. It won't let me track it, as it says;

"An Post (ROI) / Royal Mail (NI) does not provide a live tracking link for smaller packages posted to your mailbox.

Expect delivery in 2 - 4 working days.
No signature required.
Items will be posted to your mailbox"

Just a waiting game, have to say An post and UPS have been excellent on the run up to Xmas.

SPDUB

The Continental Op wrote: »

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.

That's COMREG rules .

Once an item is late according to their measuring then it doesn't matter how late it is, whether it it is a day late or 3 weeks late , the fine An Post pay or indeed any delivery company pay is the same .

So you fit sorting any late material around that day's items

Completely wild guess here put perhaps massaging their 'on time' figures? i.e. the 'old' parcels are already late so prioritise the recent stuff

No massaging as everyone knows what the "on time" figures are

AnTarbh

Loads of Christmas cards took about 15 days to post within Ireland.

jelutong

I ordered something from Amazon.UK on Jan 6th. An Post delivered it this morning.

Tauriel

Got a Delivery Notification from An Post today to say that the books from Easons were handed over today.

nicnac

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 ??

Me too.. I have 5 orders in with Easons (total of 15 books) and have only received 2 books. The issue is that they have stock in the UK, so orders are caught up in the whole Brexit issue.

nicnac

yosser hughes wrote: »

I ordered from Easons a week ago and just came across this thread. My order hasn't been received by An Post yet either by the looks of things

I got this response from Easons....

"
I apologise for the continued delay with your order.

Theses books are part of our extended range and were shipped from a logistics centre in the UK.

Regrettably, we have been experiencing extended delays in processing items sourced from the UK.
All outstanding orders are in transit to Ireland and will be sent directly to an An Post sorting depot for sorting and delivery.
Once received and scanned by An Post Tracking will be available.

We expect all outstanding deliveries to be received by An Post this week and deliveries enacted shortly thereafter.
Please note that tracking will not be available until the package has been scanned for delivery by An Post
"

Note, they said the same thing last week..

andrewfaulk

nicnac wrote: »

I got this response from Easons....

"
I apologise for the continued delay with your order.

Theses books are part of our extended range and were shipped from a logistics centre in the UK.

Regrettably, we have been experiencing extended delays in processing items sourced from the UK.
All outstanding orders are in transit to Ireland and will be sent directly to an An Post sorting depot for sorting and delivery.
Once received and scanned by An Post Tracking will be available.

We expect all outstanding deliveries to be received by An Post this week and deliveries enacted shortly thereafter.
Please note that tracking will not be available until the package has been scanned for delivery by An Post
"

Note, they said the same thing last week..

Was going to order some books from easons that were published by osprey publishing from the Uk.. didn’t go ahead with the order in the end as I guessed the were drop shipping from osprey or ordering from osprey to ship on to me.. would imagine they do similar with more niche/lower demand items

SketchyPrince

Most regular postage taking about two days with the last while, am I right in saying?

nicnac

andrewfaulk wrote: »

Was going to order some books from easons that were published by osprey publishing from the Uk.. didn’t go ahead with the order in the end as I guessed the were drop shipping from osprey or ordering from osprey to ship on to me.. would imagine they do similar with more niche/lower demand items

An item I ordered from Easons has taken 10 days to get from UK to An Post. Now I have to wait for An Post to deliver it. I have some parcels which have been sitting with An Post since 5th Jan.

PsychoPete

emrys wrote: »

Received this morning a parcel posted to me on December 15th with tracking from Finland. Tracking code never registered on the track and trace until after it was delivered this morning.

Another package from the same company/location sent following day yet to arrive and not appearing on the track and trace.

Rediculous service

Over the last few weeks I've been in and out to some of the post offices with work, the amount of post is crazy. It gets dropped off by two or three trucks and a couple of vans in the evenings and it's just pallet after pallet of parcels. I'm surprised delivery times aren't longer

BigAl81

Is anyone else getting the "An Post have attempted to deliver your package" notification, but in fact, An Post did not make any attempt?

It's happened me twice in the last few days. I've been at home at the time, and have a video doorbell so can prove they didn't attempt to deliver anything!

Perhaps too busy and hoping we'll all just come to them for collections instead?

Thanks,
Al.

Pen Rua

BigAl81 wrote: »

Is anyone else getting the "An Post have attempted to deliver your package" notification, but in fact, An Post did not make any attempt?

It's happened me twice in the last few days. I've been at home at the time, and have a video doorbell so can prove they didn't attempt to deliver anything!

Perhaps too busy and hoping we'll all just come to them for collections instead?

Thanks,
Al.

This happened a lot to me in November. In reality, the postman didn't get a chance to get to me so had to return to depot. It happened a couple of times for one package.

Hogzy

Pen Rua wrote: »

This happened a lot to me in November. In reality, the postman didn't get a chance to get to me so had to return to depot. It happened a couple of times for one package.

Same to me in Dublin 8. Iv always wondered do they enter it in the system as an attempted delivery in order to skew data in terms of the amount of undelivered parcels. It never seems to happen me with Amazon but usually smaller businesses or person to person post.

fryup

got 3 different text messages in a row today for 3 different parcels, maybe the backlog has been eased??

Darc19

fryup wrote: »

got 3 different text messages in a row today for 3 different parcels, maybe the backlog has been eased??

No internal irish backlog. They can handle 2m+ parcels a week with their additional systems.

We are finding 98%+ next day delivery which is as good as you get.

There are loads of delays on all international parcels - both coming in and going out of Ireland as the airfreight capacity simply is not there due to flight cancelations. Same applies to every country.

Royal Mail in the uk is a shambles with up to two weeks before some items even start their journey

aoife1991

Darc19 wrote: »

There are loads of delays on all international parcels - both coming in and going out of Ireland as the airfreight capacity simply is not there due to flight cancelations. Same applies to every country.

Royal Mail in the uk is a shambles with up to two weeks before some items even start their journey

I noticed this, I returned something from an UK seller in my local post office on the 11th Jan and I haven't had any tracking updates since 12th Jan "Your post has left An Post DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12". I don't expect it will be in the UK before February.

johndoe99

So with Covid, I ordered some vape liquids, from a shop in Waterford City, with express delivery, yesterday; Monday morning. I received an update from An Post track and trace hours later that my package was accepted in Waterford DSU, 5 hours later another update states "we have your post in Waterford DSU". All is going great i think, but then again its posted in Waterford for delivery in Waterford, so its going to be fast. So i'm expecting delivery today Tuesday.

Then I receive an update stating today "Your delivery has been sorted in Portlaoise Mail Centre, Laois"

I get onto live chat to be informed that all post regardless of destination is relayed to Laois for sorting. I never new this. Has it always been this way?

mackeire

All post in the south east gets collected from the local DSU and goes to portlaoise to be sorted.

From there it goes to the DSU for where it's addressed to.

Express post is usually guaranteed overnight delivery but since this pandemic started, some items take a day longer as the system is overloaded with people posting stuff.

BigAl81

BigAl81 wrote:

Is anyone else getting the "An Post have attempted to deliver your package" notification, but in fact, An Post did not make any attempt?

The package turned up today, just one day later. Not too bad given all that's going on in the world!

Dublinandy3

I post stuff I sell on adverts and get a fair few too. Stuff from abroad is obv delayed not because of an post but the last week or so all an post stuff has been usual delivery times (eg next day when it says next day)