Alan O’Regan writes:
“This may be a dumb question but An Post doesn’t seem to want to answer me. What is the reason credit cards can’t be used to buy foreign currency in post offices? I can’t seem to find a good reason online.”
Anyone?
Tag Archives: An Post
Stamp this out.
Vanessa S writes:
A lot of people will find themselves without cards and presents this year in the Midlands and Dublin. Envelope cut in the middle with knife, card taken out and put back in the wrong way (as above). I have written to An Post:
Dear An Post
Can I kindly request that your staff refrain from opening my post? Perhaps you could you know, spread some festive cheer by not fleecing us twice, once for the stamp and again for the contents!
No there was no cash in there. The people who chanced their arm were left empty handed because they thought a small cheque was cash! Some other people won’t be as lucky.
Deranged urban myth/postal paranoia or ‘on the money’?
Only you can decide.
An Postrophe
at
This morning.
Grand Canal Dock apartment block, Dublin 2
Thanks M
Meanwhile…
Apostropocalypse.
Wow.
Spotted in North County Dublin at the weekend
(Thanks Alex Connolly)
Stop That
at
Go home lady.
Nothing to send here.
Anna McHugh of An Post writes:
Due to industrial action in mails processing centres by staff of supplier company IO Systems who are members of the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU), An Post greatly regrets to advise customers NOT to post any mail items, with immediate effect, today Friday. Also, as a result of this industrial action, there will be no mail collections from businesses today, Friday.
Mail deliveries are operating as normal today (Friday). A small number of letters were not processed last night due to the industrial action between IO Systems and the CWU.
An Post greatly regrets this inconvenience to our customers and urges the parties involved to resolve their differences through the normal industrial relations procedures.
FIGHT!
(RollingNews.ie)
Etc.
Feargal Purcell writes:
An Post’s new 70c stamp marking the centenary of Pádraig Pearse’s historic speech at the graveside of O’Donovan Rossa was today unveiled in Rosscarbery, Co Cork by John Whelpley, great-grandson of Jerimiah O’Donovan Rossa.
Designed by Red&Grey Design, the stamp features a graveside photograph of Pádraig from the Keogh Collection at the National Library and may be viewed or purchased at our website [link below], at main post offices and the GPO Dublin. A limited edition First Day Cover envelope is also available….
Fight!
YourCode
at
Barry Whyte tweetz:
“This letter was sent to “To Yer Man Henderson”, in Buncrana and the person who it was for actually got it.”
Ah here.
Seona O’Fegan
“Through my work as a Postmistress, every day I listen to and discuss the concerns and needs of people. What I hear very strongly is a need for greater Government support for vibrant communities, where people can access the essential services they require and can do their day-to-day business.
As a candidate I am not just about the Post Office. If elected, I will work for stronger policy, and more investment, in each of the areas that make communities vibrant – schools, health services, transport and jobs.”Seona O’Fegan who is standing as a Post Office candidate in Galway West. She is the Postmistress at Barna and Fr. Griffin Road Post Offices in Galway city.
FIGHT!
Postmasters launch election campaign with first candidate (Irish Examiner)
(Pat Moore/Photocall Ireland)
Lick Softly
at
Launched today.
The An Post W.B Yeats commemorative stamp.
Feargal Purcell writes:
Designed by Irish design company Detail, the stamp is based on an iconic image of the poet from London’s National Portrait Gallery by photographer George C Beresford.
Accompanying the stamp issue is a beautiful First Day Cover (FDC) containing well-loved and remembered lines from the poem ‘Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’.
‘I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.’
FIGHT
Answers revealed below
Spiderlegs writes:
“A guy I know has been putting An Post to the test by mailing random objects and making them solve puzzles to get the correct address. Amazingly, they seem to get it right almost every time.”
Dice. Delivered two days later.
Mobius strip. Not delivered.
Clear plastic with address. Not delivered.
Crossword puzzle address. Delivered.
Letter with jigsaw address. Delivered with ‘a polite note explaining why they opened it’.
Address using pop-up mechanism. Delivered the next morning.
More at link below.
G’wan the An Post, in fairness.
From top: Give Up Your Aul Sins; Nelly & Nora; The Secret of Kells and Roy
New stamps from An Post celebrating Irish animation created by Dublin-based Vermillion Design.
And the first to feature Augmented Reality technology.
What!?
Feargal Purcell writes:
In a first for An Post,when scanned by a Smartphone with the CEE App installed*, a specially produced film featuring Roy, Give Up Yer Aul Sins, The Secret of Kells and Nelly & Nora, and other animated works can be seen. The film was produced by IFB [Irish Film Board], Animation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland…
Stamps available here