Inbound and internal An Post Delays

Where are all the postmen? Did they all catch Covid or are they on strike? I haven't seen one here doing the rounds this week and didn't see one last week either. No-one is getting their mail. The last time I saw their van here was around 9th or 10th December. I've got a parcel stuck in Dublin mail centre since last Thursday and I'm starting to think it will never come. Very frustrating.

Express post handed in to post office Monday , tracking still sez your post was accepted in , I was hoping this would be quick after going for express option , didn’t even make it to the Dublin hub for sorting yet , not looking good if I say so , I thought post offices are meant to be cleared every day for next day , any help anyone , cheers in advance

Cheers thanks for that , time of year and all that so delays are expected, just never had a parcel stay in accepted on tracker overnight before , that usually happens in the the Dublin hub 😂😂

A parcel was posted from England to me on October the 13th.This parcel is a big size,4 feet long by about 18 inches wide.Sent thru Parcelforce.It does'nt arrive into Ireland till 5th November,which is a long time to just get across the Irish sea.Anyway,it's somewhere in the "Irish Postal System" according to Parcelforce.I've paid the taxes/customs duty etc during the checkout on Ebay,and the sender has filled the correct CN23 customs form .

Still no sign of the parcel.In fairness to the sender,they've been in regular contact with me and Parcelforce to see where it is.Latest step is a courier/postman is going to call to my house and get me to sign a form saying it has'nt arrived,then the sender will start the insurance ball rolling to get the money back.Bloody annoying altogether.

At least not all hope is lost - my parcel arrived and it only took a week from Dublin mail centre to reach me in the greater Dublin area! So... massive delays because of the sheer volume of mail but they're trying.

Hello Lads,

I have a package from addresspal NJ, I paid customs and was waiting to be delivered today. It had arrived in my town this morning and was out for delivery around 8:11, then it was marked as delivered around 15:00. I have a ring camera and theres was nothing that was delivered. I asked my local postman and he confirmed there was nothing for me this morning. I know him and trusted my local postman. He will brought this up to his mail manager tomorrow morning. Has any of you experience this case?

Is there a problem with outgoing mail in Galway? I was sent a parcel on Friday and it still isn't showing in the An Post tracking. I trust the sender put it in the mail on Friday so it isn't a case of lying on a table somewhere waiting for someone to take the parcels to the post office today afternoon. Maybe it will simply arrive without ever showing in the tracking but just wondering if I should alert the sender or wait. It was supposed to be here before Christmas but not sure now. Usually post from Galway to Dublin gets here in a day if lucky.

I have registered myself to the "My Deliveries" service from AnPost and now I can see all my parcels online (if the sender has provided Anpost with either my e-mail or phone number)

I already usually got a notification via text and e-mail about upcoming deliveries, but this also allows paying of custom charges from a single hub rather than waiting for the individual notification.

I also can see the parcels I got over the last 4 month but funny enough, none of the Amazon parcels are visible, just the other

And it also allows to re-direct in advance of the delivery once it hits the system, nice function if you require the parcel to go somewhere else.

Is there anything An Post can do to stop the delivery of a package if there is no tracking number?

I guessing there isn’t but hoping there is

My postman comes on a bicycle. if a parcel or package is to big, or his load for that morning is to big, I get the same note. However, I understand what's happening. I don't call him lazy.

There is a limit to what you can carry on a bicycle. It would not be the postmans fault. The sorting office should send out a supplementary van with larger stuff. My postman comes around 8.30ish. Anything bigger comes in a van about 11am ish. You cannot seriously tell me the postman is at fault for not having the capacity to carry larger stuff or stuff he has not space for?

On a side note, whenever my postman is off, the backup person, on a couple of occasions, delivers my stuff to the wrong place. I took it up with the manager in the sorting office. Hasnt happened since. Maybe you should consider the same.

Not in my experience, they lost a package with a DHL label containing a €500 product. Service and follow up was shambolic, MOD <snip>.

An Post post office was listed online as a Parcel Point drop off for DHL. Confirmed with lady in Post Office on the day, it wasn’t tracked as they couldn’t scan it & that was the last of it. In my my comms with them the “good people’ have said they can’t find (track) an untracked item. IMHO won’t get anywhere with your efforts to halt the process.

Thank you

When do An Post resume deliveries?

I phoned the customer service number to find out. I thought they would have an automated message with details but it only says post offices and the customer support is closed until Thursday the 30th.

Are deliveries also stopped until then?