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Can you buy British stamps in Ireland?

  • 13-04-2015 09:01PM
    #1
    Warper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭


    Left my watch in a hostel in Liverpool and they will send it to me but need a stamped address envelope. Can you buy British stamps in the GPO or does anyone know what the story is? Cheers


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  • #2
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    Warper wrote: »
    Left my watch in a hostel in Liverpool and they will send it to me but need a stamped address envelope. Can you buy British stamps in the GPO or does anyone know what the story is? Cheers
    Not as far as I'm aware. You can always buy them up North if you're really stuck. Personally, I'd just change a fiver and send that.


  • #3
    Zab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭Zab


    http://www.royalmail.com/

    You can print it out.


  • #4
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    In an envelope?

    Say goodbye to the watch.


  • #5
    Rabbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Rabbo


    Warper wrote: »
    Left my watch in a hostel in Liverpool and they will send it to me but need a stamped address envelope. Can you buy British stamps in the GPO or does anyone know what the story is? Cheers

    A lot of lives were lost at the GPO in 1916 to get rid of those stamps


  • #6
    Warper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    In an envelope?

    Say goodbye to the watch.

    true ill buy a small parcel and buy online thanks


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  • #7
    crosstownk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Will the hotel not take a fee via credit/debit card and buy the stamps themselves? Or do all their other guests who forget shít only come from the UK?

    Slightly OT but: Really, I find it frustrating with so many UK/US sellers/establishments that won't ship internationally. It makes no sense. It doesn't seem to be a problem for the rest of the world.
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  • #8
    steamengine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


    GPO Dublin used to sell them, probably still do.


  • #9
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Rabbo wrote: »
    A lot of lives were lost at the GPO in 1916 to get rid of those stamps

    They seem to have kept the mail sacks though.


  • #10
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I'm in Liverpool on thursday, I'll pick it up for you, for a small fee :)


  • #11
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They seem to have kept the mail sacks though.


    They give us 800 years of oppression, we steal their mail sacks


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  • #12
    steamengine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They seem to have kept the mail sacks though.

    I was looking at this guy emptying the local post box with 'Liam Layor' bags, which were as you say, but turned inside out. ;)


  • #13
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Dpd would collect it for about a tenner op.

    Much more sensible and secure method imo.


  • #14
    anncoates
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    Sound like generous people. :)

    Best to just pay for a fiver sterling here and post it over. You probably won't get a sterling bank draft for such a small amount.


  • #15
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    I'll sell you a penny black.


  • #16
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Warper wrote: »
    Left my watch in a hostel in Liverpool

    What were you doing over in Liverpool?


  • #17
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Junkyard Cat wrote: »
    What were you doing over in Liverpool?

    Wha'?


  • #18
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Wha'?

    Just wondering what OP was doing over in Liverpool.


  • #19
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Junkyard Cat wrote: »
    Just wondering what OP was doing over in Liverpool.

    Why? You know what curiosity did?


  • #20
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    They give us 800 years of oppression, we steal their mail sacks

    We also have the post boxes.


  • #21
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Why? You know what curiosity did?

    Let the cat live a long and fulfilled life?


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  • #22
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,352 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I'll send you down some from NI if you are desperate.


  • #23
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Why? You know what curiosity did?

    Yep, it discovered water under the surface of Mars.


  • #24
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    They seem to have kept the mail sacks though.

    There are An Post and US Mail sacks in circulation in the UK too, and lost of other countries.

    The sacks come with the mail, and get re-used.


  • #25
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    wendell borton wrote: »
    We also have the post boxes.

    Yeah but we painted those green, be grand.


  • #26
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Just a little Samba wrote: »
    Yeah but we painted those green, be grand.

    Kept their train lines and canals as well as the sanitation systems in our bigger towns and cities.

    We should rip it all out in the interest of nationalism.


  • #27
    Just a little Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Just a little Samba


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Kept their train lines and canals as well as the sanitation systems in our bigger towns and cities.

    We should rip it all out in the interest of nationalism.

    Not really, we built and paid for them.

    If anything we should be ripping up the rail ways and roads we built in the UK, that'll learn them.


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