An Post nail their man yet again.

kneemos

Must have a team of psychics in the sorting room.
https://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/post-amazingly-deliver-parcel-no-name-address-151044

somesoldiers

Pity they are not keeeping an eye on the staff

https://www.gillbooks.ie/biography/biography/tony-10

Tony 10 was the online betting username of Tony O'Reilly, the postman who became front-page news in 2011 after he stole €1.75 million from An Post while he was a branch manager in Gorey. He used the money to fund a gambling addiction that began with a bet of €1 and eventually rose to €10 million, leading to the loss of his job, his family, his home - and winning him a prison sentence.

DEFTLEFTHAND

They used to post up pictures of weird letters and parcels.

For eg, a letter adressed to Jim, yellow bungalow, Roscommon.


You'd what's going through the mind of the sender.

DefinitelyMarc

"(H)an" the post! :pac:

archer22

Yeah they are amazing...they even managed to deliver a registered package for me to someone with a different name a hundred miles away...and I never got it back.

suicide_circus

Some lads.

Was waiting on a delivery one morning and was amazed to see a "sorry we missed you" notice being pushed through the letterbox flap, particularly as the doorbell hadn't gone.

I opened the door just as your man was scurrying away. I called after him and said I'd take the parcel. Lo and behold the parcel was not in the van. Your man mumbled incoherently as he got in the van and sped away.

Agricola

I share the same name, village, and county as another guy who lives about 5 miles away. The obvious difference between the two of us is the first line of the address which are two completely different townlands.

If the regular postman if off, you can be sure my post will go to him or his post will go to me. The doubly annoying thing is this fella loves to bring me my post after he's opened it and had a good aul read, just to be fully sure it isn't for him like.

Mrs OBumble

Storytellers in the marketing department, more like.

Kinda amazing how a parcel gets a note attached with just enough of an address hint ... and no clues how the note got there. And a story accompanied by a pic of a random unnamed lad in an operational area that the public won't be in.


I've give it a 2/10 - simply too far-fetched to be true.

archer22

They might even start delivering the mail that they are hanging on to for months from Singapore, Hong Kong and China yet.
Hopefully the media will be around to take a few pics of that...if it ever happens.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Storytellers in the marketing department, more like.

Kinda amazing how a parcel gets a note attached with just enough of an address hint ... and no clues how the note got there. And a story accompanied by a pic of a random unnamed lad in an operational area that the public won't be in.


I've give it a 2/10 - simply too far-fetched to be true.

And yet it got there. The explanation makes sense. It’s delivered to a small village where the local postie sees it as similar to previous deliveries and goes to the same address.

mickdw

You could make out Shane on the address and they gave the area so you are down to the local post office at that stage. It wasn't that far fetched that they worked out who it should go to.

Hector Bellend

suicide_circus wrote: »

Some lads.

Was waiting on a delivery one morning and was amazed to see a "sorry we missed you" notice being pushed through the letterbox flap, particularly as the doorbell hadn't gone.

I opened the door just as your man was scurrying away. I called after him and said I'd take the parcel. Lo and behold the parcel was not in the van. Your man mumbled incoherently as he got in the van and sped away.

The blokes who start to run away as soon as they've rang the door bell annoy me greatly.

I always wondered why they did it?

YFlyer

Sure didn't the postman successfully deliver a letter, back in the day, to Pat Spillane. All it had was Pat the Langer, Co. Kerry.

Doltanian

Sore losers went straight to the Cork County Board also

diomed

somesoldiers wrote: »

Pity they are not keeeping an eye on the staff

https://www.gillbooks.ie/biography/biography/tony-10

I am reading the book at the moment.
The Gorey post office manager who took €1.75 million was first employed as a temporary postman.
An Post internal auditors audited the branch a few times and found nothing amiss. The didn't "nail their man" in that case.