Amazon

Can someone with Prime let me know if they see anything else than "FREE Standard Delivery" with a forecast of 31 December as delivery?

I mean I am fine with that (did not even expect it this year) but for some reason all Prime items for me are showing as "FREE Standard Delivery" with no option for priority delivery on anything.

Never mind, just noticed that in England Monday and Tuesday are also bank holidays so the first working day is Wednesday, so Friday makes sense.

Thanks.

Well than it's back to treating Cork differently, because for the same item you showed, I'm getting "FREE Standard Delivery: get it by Friday, Dec. 31".

And when for a test I swapped my address to Dublin, I'm also getting 28 December!

No priority shipping for Cork!

Thank you very much, never occurred to me to check if AnPost actually works next week or not.

Hopefully Amazon soon starts delivery down here themselves.

Does anyone know what happened here?

Id suggest calling Amazon or using their live chat

Yeah, you can get them on live chat here. Im not sure how they operate today but in the link I posted you can also choose for them to call you.

I won't be very helpful as I also don't know why, but had the same experience - purchased on .de and returned to Slovakia. I was advised to put in two copies of the invoice in the plastic sleeve and attach it with a sellotape the way that someone could take a copy without using a knife. Couriers aren't cheap to Slovakia. Amazon rep told me I can get a refund if I send them a receipt of postage (they didn't give me a free return) but I never got back even after sending them a postage receipt so they only refunded for the item but not the post. I checked all main couriers but An Post for me was the cheapest. If you want, you can get an insurance or value the item when sending. I guess, DHL, UPS, DPD, Fastway or similar would be better in this case, rather than posting.

I'm a student so I always have plastic sleeves in my home. You can get it in Mr Price or sometimes Lidl middle racks. Amazon don't provide this for free. I guess, an envelope could do the trick, but again, it shouldn't be closed so someone can take a copy easily.

I used one sleeve. As above, Amazon maybe is confused after Brexit as we shouldn't attach these type of documents when posting from Ireland to the EU, but maybe Amazon is trying to be safe wanting not to get confused with Northern Ireland, or maybe it's for Amazon themselves to manage returned easier. I don't know. It wasn't hard for me to sellotape a sleeve with two sheets so I did.

Send the item back with the same courier that delivered it.

So, in Cork today, white van pulls up with loads of amazon parcels on the front seat and a driver in a blue Amazon polo delivering the parcels.

I thought I was in the US because so far I only did notice Parcel King in Dublin area doing the delivery but seemingly Cork now gets Amazon Delivery too.

Amazon have Prime branded delivery vans in Dublin now, like the ones they have in the US.

Unfortunately, my prime order from Tuesday was sent today via AnPost (forecast to be here next Tuesday).

And right now, everything I look at is at least delivery in 6 days, as soon as I swap to Dublin, everything is 2 days.

So, what ever logic they are using to determine AnPost over Amazon Prime Delivery does seem to exclude what I want.

Giving how yesterday and today Amazon Prime was delivering to our reception area for other Neighbours that logic somehow is off.

It is me, maybe i play around with my address a little to see if that helps.

And that worked, ordered Friday evening, and delivered just now by an Amazon Prime driver.

I could see on the map (provided by here) that he was approaching, and he did find me without a problem.

I'm so happy that by tinkering with my address I now have faster delivery.

Just checked there and I was somehow signed up to the free month again even though I'm sure I pressed no last time I made a purchase. They're sneaky.

Sure, why not? They only have to recognise it as an address in Germany (and, if necessary, you can write "Germany" on the label yourself - but I doubt that that will be necessary). They then hand it over to the German post office, who take it from there.

Use HERE WeGo to find your address and format it accordingly, that is the map provider Amazon uses.

Once I change my address to match what it gave me, I suddenly had Amazon Prime delivery via Amazon, if I use my Eircode address, I get AnPost.

Also "next stop" does not mean next stop, sometimes it changes, and the driver will be with you after a while. I had that multiple times, I wait until I see them really coming up my street.

I buy books from Amazon UK every couple of weeks - no issues - although I have Prime so deliveries aren't made by An Post.

An post deliver prime as well.

Amazon pay the Irish vat on stuff that it applies to anyway.