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AN POST HAS reminded customers of the dates they must have sent post by in order for it to reach its destination before Christmas.
Anyone who wants to send a parcel to European destinations (excluding Great Britain) should do so today. Letters are cards destined for Europe should be sent by Monday, 18 December.
For posting cards and parcels to England, Scotland and Wales, Monday, 18 December is the final date for posting for delivery in time for Christmas.
Tuesday, 19 December is the final date for posting cards and parcels to Northern Ireland for delivery in time for Christmas.
For posting within the Republic of Ireland, customers have until Thursday, 21 December to send their cards and parcels. However, An Post urges customers not to leave it until the last minute.
As well as the latest dates of posting, An Post is reminding customers to:
“Card and parcel volumes are soaring internationally so we urge customers not to leave it until the last minute to post to family and friends at home and abroad,” An Post’s Sarah O’Dwyer said.
“There’ll be full postal deliveries across Ireland this Saturday and post offices will be open all day for gift shopping, posting and banking services.”
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More of us would send cards if An Post brought out a 50c Christmas stamp.
I bought 6 local stamps today. The cost? 8.40 approx.
Sure the stamp is almost dearer than the card!!!
Sure what else would it be, this is Ireland 2023 rip-off country
And if you’re sending post beyond the EU you should’ve done your own research and not rely on reminders from the Journal because… You’re too late, like this article ;)
Just as well that I posted my letter to Santa last July.
@Pato: no one cares about you. Santa isn’t real so focus on CV drafting
@Éanna o Sca: Keep your hair combed and your trousers pressed Éanna.
I don’t personally send much post and I usually hand out any Christmas cards I give. But I post a lot for work. The post office we used closed down and moved to a spar store. Only a few years later that post office closed though the spar is still there. The nearest post office is much further away and the postbox opposite the work place had been locked closed since the end of October. We’re thinking it’ll get removed entirely. Options to post are limited, and that’s in Dublin City centre/south side.
Don’t send anything by post anymore unless I really have to. Got sent a one for all voucher in the post last year. Never received it. Got no help at all from post office it turned me off using them after.
@Emer Daly: Then they didnt send it. An post is one of the few working things in this country. Received post for 30 years and don’t remember them ever missing a delivery.
@Emer Daly: one 4 all vouchers have been sent by work to staff and several went ‘missing’. Very upsetting for those who never got them and trying to trace what happened. Hence why we no longer post anything like that :( family members received birthday cards from abroad that were torn open and resealed by An Post with the gift money nicked. Devastating for a child to even receive the torn and poorly resealed envelope.
I BOUGHT A BOOK IN DUBLIN TO SEND TO GREECE.WELL THE IRISH POST OFFICE COLLECTED THIS ITEM ON 4 TH DECEMBER AND QUESS WHAT THEY SENT THIS ITEM TO SORTING OFFICE IN POST LAOISE AND IT LAY THERE UNTIL 11 TH DECEMBER BEFORE DISPATCH TO GREECE(SEVEN DAYS IN IRISH POSTAL SYSTEM)MY ADVICE IS THAT IF YOU ARE SENDING ITEMS ABROAD USE A COURIER IN FUTURE.
@Brian Smith: Your Caps Lock key is broken!
@Brian Smith: I feel your pain. This is why people send ‘Save the date’ cards or emails out for weddings, long in advance. My friends sent a batch of invitations that were only delivered from the Netherlands a month & a half later.
AI comin over here takin our homeless? Disgraceful
@Sean: Anyone who was fooled by that image needs to have a think about how gullible and/or vulnerable to misinformation they are when using the ‘net.
@Sean: That image was hilariously bad. Still laughing at the tiny black horse or whatever it’s supposed to be in the background.
Corniest Oirish collage ever. Plus the burning candle inside a sealed mason jar on the right.
I normally would but since Richard and Mary are blanking me and didn’t have decency to acknowledge their card last Christmas, I am going to give it a miss and cut those gossip queens out of my life
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