An Post Delivery box - do people receive the email notifications?

deeobrien

Anyone got any experience of the An Post Delivery boxes in Limerick (Raheen in particular)? The info says you get notifications (via email) for all deliveries but I've heard that is not always the case. It would be one of the main reasons I'd be getting it. Save me having to check the box every day (I don't get much mail).

Thoie

deeobrien wrote: »

Anyone got any experience of the An Post Delivery boxes in Limerick (Raheen in particular)? The info says you get notifications (via email) for all deliveries but I've heard that is not always the case. It would be one of the main reasons I'd be getting it. Save me having to check the box every day (I don't get much mail).

My parents have one a few years, and have never got email/texts. That being said, I can't guarantee that my parents entered an email/phone number initially.

peter4918

deeobrien wrote: »

Anyone got any experience of the An Post Delivery boxes in Limerick (Raheen in particular)? The info says you get notifications (via email) for all deliveries but I've heard that is not always the case. It would be one of the main reasons I'd be getting it. Save me having to check the box every day (I don't get much mail).

I’m not living in the Limerick area but I have a post box and always get an email notification when I get mail delivered. It usually takes about 1/2 an hour for the email to come after the postman delivers the mail in the box. I have the postbox for a few years at this stage and always get the email.

A2LUE42

Limerick area and have one since last August. Always get the email notification.

charleshardin

I live in Raheen and have had one since 2016.

I always get an email notification - and it usually arrives soon after the post has been delivered.

Good system actually.

deeobrien

Great - thanks for all the replies. I'm off to order one :-)

Tefral

Always get the email here too.

Great box.

Donutz

deeobrien wrote:

Anyone got any experience of the An Post Delivery boxes in Limerick (Raheen in particular)? The info says you get notifications (via email) for all deliveries but I've heard that is not always the case. It would be one of the main reasons I'd be getting it. Save me having to check the box every day (I don't get much mail).

When the box is activated, a barcode is stuck on the inside of it. When a delivery is made, the postman scans the barcode and shortly afterwards you get the email.
I've heard that some postmen don't bother scanning the barcode when they make a delivery so the customer doesn't get the email. If this happens to be the case, just contact your local office and they will make sure it is scanned in the future.

Mango Joe

I'll post something useful the next time.

deeobrien

So I've got the box installed and the postman started using it even before it was activated which was great. (Except for one day when for some reason the old box was used). The activation letter arrived and I put on the barcode. I left the other part in the box for the postman (I reckon he is supposed to do that bit?) Unfortunately I've had no notifications Its a pity as that was one of the reasons I got the box.

deeobrien

For anyone else looking at this thread in the future. I followed up with An post. (By emailing DeliveryBox@anpost.ie ) and they followed up the notification issue for me. I now get email notifications.