Inbound and internal An Post Delays

Howdy folks, tried to post this in the Couriers subforum but it seems to be locked for user-thread posting (or else I got banned from it years ago for some bizarre reason that I've totally forgotten about!) so hope it's ok to post here instead!

Simple enough question, is it normal for post to remain in the sorting centre after having been sorted for six days? Obviously bearing in mind that Monday was a bank holiday so it's only been three working days and today being the fourth - I ask since the tracking page actually estimated that delivery would take place on December 31st after the package apparently arrived in the sorting centre the night before (2AM).

Here's the list of tracking so far, which is in reverse order. Should I be worried that there's been an issue here, or is this normal for the time of year etc? Again, it's not so much the time that's concerning me as much as the (a) estimated date of delivery being last Friday, and (b) the fact that it was apparently sorted in Dublin 12 but hasn't apparently moved at all since then, I'm out in Dun Laoghaire so I know it generally goes to another sorting office here (I think Glenageary) before finally being sent out for delivery. Seems an odd one.

1. Dec 31, 2021
2. 2:43am
3. Your delivery has been sorted DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12
4. DUBLIN 12
5. Dec 30, 2021
6. 11:06pm
7. Your delivery has been sorted ATHLONE MAIL CENTRE, CO WESTMEATH
8. WESTMEATH
9. Dec 30, 2021
10. 5:30pm
11. Your delivery has been sorted LIFFORD D.S.U., CO DONEGAL
12. DONEGAL
13. Dec 30, 2021
14. 10:47am
15. Your post was accepted in NEWTOWNCUNNINGHAM, CO DONEGAL
16. DONEGAL
17. Dec 30, 2021
18. 11:52am
19. Tracking number provided
20.  

Business item postmarked 22/12/21 arrived 05/01/22.

Edit : meant to add that was from Limerick to Cork.

Hey all,

Just wanted to give an update on my end for an item shipped from the US on Dec 1st via USPS (quite a large box)

Last update

Your item departed a transfer airport in DUBLIN, IRELAND on December 18, 2021 at 1:28 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination.

Confirmation from AnPost and from Customs (via email) that they do not have it in any sorting office.

I have seen numerous posts stating similar tracking updates means that it was scanned in the US before being handed over to the airline and then it does not scan when it arrives here.

I will update when it does arrive so anyone else with the same issue will have a rough timeline based on mine for Dec 2021 onwards.

Posted in the Uk on 20/12/21, arrived here 5/1/22.

Seems anpost have given priority to delivering the free antigen tests from the hse who are doling them out like confetti at a wedding.

Add in absenteeism and anpost are stick two fingers up at their regular customers.

Could the hse not do a simple online ticket system and you bring the ticket to a local pharmacy. Or is that too clever an idea?

But expect 5-7 day delays on a parcel getting from a to b.

locally sent packages from 30th Dec have not been delivered. I believe it is utterly chaotic in the parcel hubs with key staff out sick and people not knowing what to do.

We've been told that a senior team will be there all weekend to try and clear the backlog.

I know our dispatch manager is suggesting we look at alternatives as service this last quarter from anpost has been worse than 2020. We'd be dispatching about 2000 - 3000 parcels a week. We've had to have one person full time to monitor and reply to irate customers since Wednesday and we've to do the same all weekend. All costs money

Delivery of antigen tests have a part to play in that.

You may have deliveries on a Sunday depending for the next 3 weeks.

I know.

For those of you in the same situation. I asked the sender to start a missing mail request, it was recorded on the tracking number on the 7th Jan that a missing parcel request was initiated and on the 8th the update was that it was processed through the Ireland facility and later in the day arrived at post office and out for delivery.

No scans were done prior to delivery apart from an out for delivery scan the morning of the delivery and both AnPost and Customs stated it was not in their possession as of the 6th of Jan.

So either by pure chance it arrived in the country at 1am on the 8th and was with me by 8am on the 8th or...was just sitting in a depot here for weeks.

I hope this helps

Tracked item from the UK has been sitting as "Your delivery has been sorted DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12" for five days now. Its sort-of urgent so this is getting ridiculous.

Seperately, conventional letter post from the UK - periodical sent every two weeks, one issue arrived on Monday and the previous one arrived on Tuesday!

When a foreign postal service "hands it over" it just means it has finished processing in that country.

It's not saying it has left that country. It waits for space on scheduled air flights. If many of these are cancelled a backlog builds up in the holding area.

Quite a few Germany- Ireland flights were cancelled in the past few weeks.

There are plenty of cases of An Post scanning an item when it arrives in Ireland and not delivering it for days/weeks.

Deutsche Post DHL parcels come by truck from Germany to Ireland so flights are a moot point.