An Post returning packages from outside the EU-See 1st post

Why did u order from Amazon and get it sent to a UK address?

You should have just used your own address and Amazon would have sorted sorted the vat.

Amazon won't ship powerbanks directly to ireland.

The primary reason for a UK address is to buy from all those companies that don't deliver to Ireland, and that number increased exponentially after the Anpost shenanigans with returned mail. UK businesses would sustain a heavy loss on returned goods and refunds to the customers. To circumvent this high rejection and return risk, in steps AnPost, with their profitable service which guarantees your packet won't get stopped by, er, AnPost. Does anyone smell a rat here?

I found a reasonably helpful person in An Post who gave me the exact reason why my latest package was rejected. I got this via telephone. (The WhatsApp and Twitter route just gleaned "insufficient / invalid electronic customs clearance" with no reason provided).

The UK seller put a value of £10 on the paper customs form. The person in the UK post office incorrectly entered a value of £0.01 (one penny) on the electronic customs form. An Post's value threshold starts at £1.

As An Post are not prioritising returns, my package is still sitting in the mail centre and could be there for a few weeks.

An Post offered a solution:

"Get the sender to ask Royal Mail / UK Post Office to re-submit a fresh electronic customs form with the correct value. We will get it instantly and can then deliver your package. This can be done at any time (not just at the time of sending) once the tracking number is held."

Of course when I relayed that the seller, he contacted Royal Mail who said "we cannot do that."

Second suggestion from the helpful guy:

"Get the sender to raise an enquiry with Royal Mail. That will force them to investigate and address the issue. They will probably contact us and we will tell them what's needed."

This one could run for another while yet.

Addresspal existed in the same era as Parcel motel, it was ideal for businesses which wouldn't deliver to Ireland or NI. Parcel motel was made redundant by Brexit. Addresspal on the other hand received a huge advertising campaign and constant mailshots, in particular after the Anpost returns debacle. Addresspal should be defunct, but they're doing nicely, particularly with personal packetss such as Birthday gifts to family in Ireland which are often callously returned by an post if sent by royal mail.

Conspiracy? Who said that? I'm suggesting that the packets they export from the UK always arrive, and are not subject to the vagaries of the automatic system which has misread and returned thousands of packets when sent by Royal mail. That's not a conspiracy, more like uncompetitive practice, like insider trading.

McRedmond, CEO of the parcel returning service formerly known as AnPost has moved to a new position, Head of Dublin City Task Force, a kind of Lord mayor on steroids with executive power. No doubt his first job will be to process the "refugees", by sticking a label on them and diverting them into a van bound for, anywhere that's not here. He could install it on the travelators in the airport, as you pass by a scanner a side wall opens and you're travel-ated down a chute into a waiting cage, to be returned, eventually.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/an-post-boss-to-head-newly-established-dublin-city-taskforce/a650584795.html

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