I went yesterday to the postal delivery office to collect a package that had been sent to me. It wasn’t there – they had sent it back.
Why? Because the guy told me it was longer than they keep the packages. Four days had past. It clearly states on the leaflet they had left for me that package are returned to Irish addresses after five working days and to UK and Foreign addresses after 16 working days.
So why had they sent it back?
No one it seems is able to answer that question, not the guy who served me or the post master – as the post master is always in “an important meeting” every time I have called to ask that question.
Like a lot of simple things in Ireland it is just another example of things that don’t work and people of who don’t give a toss.
I worked for a multi-national here in Dublin a few years back. They sent their mail every night by courier to the UK where it went into the post from there. I was surprised at this as much of the mail was coming back to Ireland. The reason they did this was two fold. They had found through experience that the mail was delivered quicker from the UK to Irish an address, and probably the main reason for them – it was much cheaper. I find that quite amazing that it was cheaper to send a letter from the UK to Ireland for less than sending one internally – it is still the case.
This is just one more example of incompetence here – the water in many parts of the country cannot be drunk, the roads are a mess, there is no real infrastructure. And yet everyone appears to think that they are so very important – strange place.
Anyway have a look at this new site on working in Ireland.
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we live a little distance from the road so have a postbox at the gate to facilitate the postperson. Up to recently if there was a package or letter which has to be signed for the postperson would bring it up to the house but not any more. Now we get the form in the box and have to drive 15miles to the postoffice to pick it up. I cannot find out is this the correct procedure or is the postwoman just a lazy cow!
My sister sent me a package from cornwall to my address in dublin and 12 days later it has still not arrived,it is not the first time this has happened.Im fed up with things taking weeks instead of days.
I think the Irish postal service is the worst in Europe.
First of all I send a letter to Greece on where I am from. It was an important letter because of a court day. The address was incorrect and they sent it back to me. Once it came to Ireland back it took them 4 months to deliver it back to me. Maybe they dropped it somewhere, but anyway if they could send it back to me on time I would resend another letter but now the time is over and I am waiting for the negative answer. They ruined my court day, I will hate them FOREVER.
A couple of times I went to the post office to collect a parcel and they don’t even ask me an id. I experienced of losing a parcel because somebody else pick it up… who? I don’t know, they don’t know, so 500euro lost.
My mother sent me a parcel and it never arrived. I guess somebody got it before to pass the scan control in the airport. You know for what kind of people I am taking about.
So I dont have a lot of faith in Irish services. I think this country is good only to drink and test yourself how much you can stand racial abuse.
In 2006, the time I really had to send my around 15kg books to US, I used the An Post Book Post service, the cheapest way to send books and I must say that I was impressed.. but probably it was due to the USPS role than An Post.
Secondly during my tenure in Ireland, I dont recall any time I had any issues with An Post.. but I may have been a lucky lad.