Is the British "Royal Mail" secretly running An Post?

Run_to_da_hills · 20-06-2008 10:50PM

Maybe these mail bags could have been only recently discovered in the vaults of the GPO.

CtrlSource · 21-06-2008 03:13PM

Who's the Minister responsible for An Post? S/he must be brought before a special Dail sitting at once, to answer questions on this matter of critical national importance. Otherwise i forsee our Ambassador in London being called in to answer before Her Majesty once news of this gets out! :P

Actually i remember the Post Office in UCD always had loads of these Royal Mail bags lying around to put your letters in (they didnt seem to bother to use the postbox) and i always thought it a bit odd at the time. i guess it's just as others said... these bags tend to get exchanged

RATM · 21-06-2008 03:54PM

I work for An Post in the Dublin Mail Center casually over Xmas and Summers and we were just talking about this a few days back. In the mail center where I work ( which is the biggest in the country by a long shot ) down in the parcel division the majority of bags we use are Royal Mail, probably because An Post never gives them back to the UK...

You make take our lives but you can never take our post bags:D

rogue-entity · 21-06-2008 07:59PM

If Royal Mail were running An Post.. maybe we would have a proper postcode system and mail would actually be delivered on time and accurately.

I had a letter from my insurance company go to the wrong house, which fortunatly happens to be owned by friends of my parents. And on two occasions, AIB Code-Cards got lost in the post, but third time was the charm.

Eoin · 21-06-2008 08:05PM

rogue-entity wrote: »

If Royal Mail were running An Post.. maybe we would have a proper postcode system and mail would actually be delivered on time and accurately.

Is the Royal Mail really that much better?

It is up the government, not An Post, to introduce national post codes, which they are finalising plans for.

Talliesin · 21-06-2008 11:08PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

The British never left the country, they just painted everything green in the hopes that nobody would notice that they were still running the show.

I remember talking to someone who had been in Cumann na Gael during the time of the Free State. He told me about a rather cynical comrade of his who had said that if the Free State was replaced with a republic that "the only thing that'll change is that lamp post over there will be painted green".

And sure enough it was, until safety regulations about lampposts in central islands of roads below a certain width led to it being painted yellow and black.

eoin_s wrote: »

It is up the government, not An Post, to introduce national post codes, which they are finalising plans for.

I preferred one of the schemes they didn't go for to they one they seem likely to implement.

I agree though that An Post - who have very good records of address information throughout the country - aren't exactly likely to want to introduce something that will make deliveries no easier for them but considerably easier for every competing company. Why would they?

Guy:Incognito · 21-06-2008 11:20PM

Why is Royal mail in inverted comma's? It's not a pretend company you know. (despite some comments about their service

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21-06-2008 11:21PM

I assume that you really took the first picture just to get a pic of yer one's ass, right?

Zzippy · 21-06-2008 11:33PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Half the Post Boxes in Dun Laoghaire are old Royal Mail ones painted Green (Except they refer to George rather than Elizabeth), so maybe they are.

You mean Kingstown, right?

Talliesin · 21-06-2008 11:41PM

Myth wrote: »

I assume that you really took the first picture just to get a pic of yer one's ass, right?

That's perhaps less disturbing than the OP's apparent postman stalking predilections.

Terrontress · 21-06-2008 11:43PM

eoin_s wrote: »

Is the Royal Mail really that much better?

No, they are both awful although Royal Mail come six times a week.

LordSutch · 22-06-2008 07:06PM

Coincidentally I was speaking to my postie a few months ago about his 'An Post' Bicycle, and he told me that it was the Bike specially designed for the Royal Mail, apparently An Post had chosen this RM one out of many bicycle makes & models from across Europe!

ejmaztec · 22-06-2008 07:14PM

ArthurF wrote: »

Coincidentally I was speaking to my postie a few months ago about his 'An Post' Bicycle, and he told me that it was the Bike specially designed for the Royal Mail, apparently An Post had chosen this RM one out of many bicycle makes & models from across Europe!

All filled with high explosive and timed to go off when the invasion starts.:eek:

RuggieBear · 22-06-2008 07:28PM

The postal system played a very important part in the history of Ireland and the role of the Britain's quest for imperial control. Read a thesis about it recently. the Post Office was one of a number of executive arms of government whose methods and bureaucracy came under increased scrutiny during the early 19th century. The postal network was expanding from the Act of Union onwards as the state increased its communications reach with each new year. In the beginning, the network followed the developing road pattern but as time went on the demand for postal services and the state’s desire to provide them meant that transport links were constructed in order to link areas by post.

The mail boat was hugely important and ports such as howth and holyhead were created for it.

mikemac · 23-06-2008 10:15AM

javaboy wrote: »

There's no conspiracy. I bet there's a bunch of people in Royal Mail p***ed off that An Post never return their bags.

Lol, it seems An Post are thieves.

Agree with others, there are countless examples of old British mailboxes and all they did was paint them green

_blank_ · 23-06-2008 10:29AM

You could bet your house on this.

I bet Royal Mail in Britain don't use An Post bags.

Also, remember when it was ok to spend Sterling 1p and 2p pieces here?

I tried to spend some Punt 1p and 2p pieces in england once, and they wouldn't take them.

23-06-2008 11:43AM

DesF wrote: »

I tried to spend some Punt 1p and 2p pieces in england once, and they wouldn't take them.

English shops won't even take NI sterling notes.

Run_to_da_hills · 23-06-2008 11:51AM

Deleted User wrote: »

English shops won't even take NI sterling notes.

I wouldnt blame them, I don't know of any other country in the world that would allow every tom dick and harry to print money, There must be about a dozen different types fivers in circulation in the north.

antodeco · 23-06-2008 12:01PM

Well it does depend on the sichuation...

Run_to_da_hills · 23-06-2008 12:04PM

antodeco wrote: »

sichuation...

ejmaztec · 23-06-2008 12:07PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Isn't "Sichuation" where those earthquakes were in China?:pac:

rogue-entity · 23-06-2008 01:22PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

I wouldnt blame them, I don't know of any other country in the world that would allow every tom dick and harry to print money, There must be about a dozen different types fivers in circulation in the north.

Hong Kong. They have 3 private corporations who are authorised to print legal tender. HSBC and Bank of China are two of them, and I cant remember the third.

23-06-2008 01:28PM

Zimbabwe, just about anyone with a printing press.

I was in Sierra Leone a few years ago (hyper inflation) I received a wad of notes 2cm thick stapled together worth about €2.

rogue-entity · 23-06-2008 03:09PM

eoin_s wrote: »

Is the Royal Mail really that much better?

It is up the government, not An Post, to introduce national post codes, which they are finalising plans for.

Probably, I have no experience with them.

Just like its up to the government to fix our broadband woes right? Not Eircom? :rolleyes:
Given our governments track record with communication systems.. I wont hold my breath.

Talliesin wrote: »

I preferred one of the schemes they didn't go for to they one they seem likely to implement.

I agree though that An Post - who have very good records of address information throughout the country - aren't exactly likely to want to introduce something that will make deliveries no easier for them but considerably easier for every competing company. Why would they?

Which one was that? And which one /are/ they implementing?

And of course, just like its not in Eircom's interest to make LLU quick and painless.

Eoin · 23-06-2008 03:13PM

rogue-entity wrote: »

Probably, I have no experience with them.

Just like its up to the government to fix our broadband woes right? Not Eircom? :rolleyes:
Given our governments track record with communication systems.. I wont hold my breath.
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Rolleyes indeed. Why is it not also up to Vodafone and O2 to have an obligation to provide broadband?

citytillidie · 23-06-2008 03:28PM

Deleted User wrote: »

English shops won't even take NI sterling notes.

Some do now since the Euros came into play and if you also point out the word Sterling on the notes.

Is the British "Royal Mail" secretly running An Post?

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