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An Post delivery

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  • 23-12-2016 8:43pm
    #1
    chicorytip
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    Will there be mail delivered tomorrow, Christmas Eve?


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    rawn
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    Saturday December 24, 2016 No collections or deliveries of mail

    http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/MainContent/ChristmasChannel/Christmas+Postal+Dates.htm


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    EIRE1922
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭EIRE1922


    There was no post on Christmas Eve this year, for the first time in a very long time!

    There has always been post on Christmas Eve regardless what day it fell on (even on a weekend day). An Post for their unknown wisdom too have decided there will be no Post Offices opened (not since last Saturday, Christmas Eve) until this Thursday or any postal deliveries either! I know there was a double bank holiday on Monday & Tuesday, but it makes no sense why they've decided to include this Wednesday the 28th aswell!? So much for wanting to order anything in the online sales or trying to run a business either!


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    #4
    elperello
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    Local postman says no deliveries on Christmas Eve to save on overtime.


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    amtc
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    It's a privilege day


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    amtc
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    I mean weds


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    amtc
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    And there were deliveries and collections sat before


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    spurious
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    I had a parcel delivery by An Post on Christmas Eve which surprised me as I'd read their notice and was resigned to not having it before Christmas. Perhaps it only applied to normal post, not parcels?


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    ArthurG
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    No big surprise, An Post is virtually insolvent.


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    #10
    ED E
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    spurious wrote: »
    I had a parcel delivery by An Post on Christmas Eve which surprised me as I'd read their notice and was resigned to not having it before Christmas. Perhaps it only applied to normal post, not parcels?

    Some Courier Post vans are owner operated so they can do extra days to move their loads if they're arsed.


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    njs030
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    amtc wrote: »
    And there were deliveries and collections sat before

    There was none on Christmas Eve but there was on 17th.


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    EIRE1922
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭EIRE1922


    notjustsweet wrote: »
    There was none on Christmas Eve but there was on 17th.

    There was always post the Sunday before Christmas Eve and even the previous the two Sundays running up to Christmas week. That changed to the last Sunday before Christmas in the past 10 years or more. This year it changed to post been delivered on Saturday 17th.

    Every other year there was parcel and letter post delivers on Christmas Eve, without fail! Now I even checked with my parents and they agree. As long as they can remember in the 50's, '60s, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's and up until last year there was always post on Christmas Eve!

    Tradition as you usually gave the postman a few bob for himself on Christmas Eve and some wine/hot whiskey (no drinking and driving these days as most postmen deliver in vans) or mince pies etc...well at least in years gone by they did. Often the case the postman was well drunk and full of food on his bicycle by the time he finished up on Christmas Eve. Ha..ha! :D


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    EIRE1922
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭EIRE1922


    ArthurG wrote: »
    No big surprise, An Post is virtually insolvent.

    Yes, and then An Post plan to put the price of stamp up to 90-93 cent in the New Year! A joke!


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    L1011
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    EIRE1922 wrote: »
    Yes, and then An Post plan to put the price of stamp up to 90-93 cent in the New Year! A joke!

    Because they're not making money on flat mail currently.


    I haven't even met my day to day postman in years so I suspect the tips and drinks are dying off rapidly. Have met the parcels drivers occasionally.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    EIRE1922 wrote: »
    Yes, and then An Post plan to put the price of stamp up to 90-93 cent in the New Year! A joke!

    Taking it to about the EU average


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    ED E
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    Samson Delightful Fern wrote: »
    Taking it to about the EU average

    It should be a lot more. Cost of business for a mail carrier is much higher here than most of our european counterparts. People don't like to hear it but thats the reality of our dwelling patterns.


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    SPDUB
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    EIRE1922 wrote: »
    Every other year there was parcel and letter post delivers on Christmas Eve, without fail! Now I even checked with my parents and they agree. As long as they can remember in the 50's, '60s, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's and up until last year there was always post on Christmas Eve!

    Sorry for the late reply but your parents are remembering wrong .There hasn't been deliveries on Christmas Eve if it falls on a Saturday or Sunday for a long time .Don't know exactly when it started but talking to long serving staff who started in the late 70's and early 80's and they have never done a delivery on Christmas Eve if it was a Saturday or Sunday

    2011 was the last occurrence before 2016 but due to the quirks of the calender it will happen again in 2017


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