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At this stage Dublin 12 Mails Centre might just as well be in outer Mongolia People getting packages without paying any Vat, people paying Vat & not getting their packages & people being told their packages are being sent back when they've already been delivered. They're just making it up as they go along. An Post are getting huge flack from all quarters for their handling of this.

I have now sourced a supply of these. Thank you. Tony.

Things are going from one extreme to the other. The UK retailer sent out a replacement order for the original package which I was told had failed the Customs scan & has been sitting in Dublin since Sept 17th. I paid the charges on this replacement package on Tuesday. This morning a package was delivered but it was the original package which was supposed to be sent back to the UK. I didn't pay any charges at all on this package. It seems An Post are just dealing with the backlog by just delivering the post without checking it at all I can't complain I suppose as it saved me €26 but its still crazy

Just tell them its a sure thing & you were guided from above

Obviously didn't use An Post

Saturday delivery Some can't get delivery from Monday to Friday

Thanks for the info. Tony.

Would this non sound decoder be suitable for the A Class ? ESU 59659 Gauge H0 LokPilot 5 DCC, 21MTC MKL, gauge H0, 0 Tony.

Anything on an alternative chip as Billycan asked ?

You couldn't make this up if you tried. It now appears that the missing package hasn't been scanned at all An Post is like Faulty Towers, without the comedy but with Manuel in charge. Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to your query This item RN764173586GB appears to be in a clearance delay providing all is ok with the customs data this will be released for delivery Unfortunately, I cannot advise on a clearance date. My advice for now would be to keep an eye on our tracking over the coming days, all tracking will be available on our track&trace when this item is cleared and accepted into our network for processing and delivery. I am sorry for the inconveniences caused and I hope this information was helpful!

You had to spoil it by mentioning An Post didn't you

Oh your all very quiet over here. Oh your all very quiet over here

Dublin Mails Center is the black hole of the Postal System. In fact the whole An Post system is a black hole with zero responsibility & zero accountability

I'm to old to get a mortgage

Was just thinking the same thing myself. Between waiting for this & dealing with An Post over packages

No one, it just gets sent back I'd say.

I have spoken to a customs officer 0n 01 7383685 picking the An Post option which I think is number 6. They told me that anything to do scanning & collecting Duty or VAT on incoming mail is purely down to An Post & they (Customs) wouldn't be involved at all. They said that An Post have been contracted to do this & receive a fee for each item. So we know who to blame

Is that a 40ft container I see on the deck there

Below is the message I received from An Post this morning. The declarations attached to both my packages were exactly the same. The first one was stopped but the second package will be delivered in a couple of days. It seems to depend on who looks at your package What's happening seems very haphazard. Who are "they" & who exactly is looking at these packages? HI Tony, Apologies for the delayed response. Checking the tracking on the item RN764173590GB, it appears to have been cleared for delivery last night and is currently being processed to be sent down to the delivery office today. I would expect you should have it in the next day or two. It appears that RN764173586GB is in a clearance delay I'm afraid. This delay would be due to the volume of items that would have been received over the last few weeks and they are working from a backlog and are behind on handing items back to us. According to our system there was no electronic customs declaration provided electronically by the sender. As we cannot amend or rectify any electronic customs data, the item may be returned as a result to the sender. Items now do require both an electronic and physical copy of the customs declaration form to be provided. If the physical declaration is found sufficient by itself and the item is cleared, it would be handed back to us and will get an updated scan to say it has been sorted in our Parcel Hub and it will then be delivered soon afterwards from the local delivery office. For now just keep an eye on the tracking Apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused. - Sean

That's a great way to do it if you live within a reasonable distance from NI.

At least you know what's happening to your package. This is what I get. Been that way for 10 days now. I don't think any package has ever been sorted so much Regards. Tony. 27 September 2021 13:52 Your delivery has been sorted DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 27 September 2021 13:50 We have your post in DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 24 September 2021 13:59 Your delivery has been sorted DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 24 September 2021 13:57 We have your post in DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 22 September 2021 17:17 Your delivery has been sorted DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 22 September 2021 17:09 We have your post in DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 20 September 2021 14:37 Your delivery has been sorted DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 20 September 2021 14:33 We have your post in DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 17 September 2021 13:13 Your delivery has been sorted DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 17 September 2021 13:09 We have your post in DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12 17 September 2021 13:08 Your delivery was received by An Post in DUBLIN MAIL CENTRE, DUBLIN 12

The usual blah blah so. I've emailed so many Td's & Ministers at this point I feel I know them personally. Too lazy to do the job properly. My local post office clerk reckons they are just taking the easy way out. Tony.

Sorry but I thought that your post was stuck in An Post since last Nov

Last November

Well I bit the bullet this morning & rang An Post customer services on 01 7057600 After 35 minutes I got to the top of the queue. I gave him the two tracking numbers & he told me the first one is being sent back because of an incorrect Customs declaration. Nice of them to tell me. I asked him if there was anything I could do to stop this & he replied no as An Post can't do anything if the declaration is incorrect. I said I thought that when there was a problem that An Post were supposed to contact either the seller or the recipient for information before sending it back. He denied that was the case? The second package has had a customs charge attached to it, which I would expect & he gave me the Customs number as I hadn’t received any notification. Putting in the number it told me that the service wasn't available at present & to try later After lunch I tried again & paid the charge. Now I’ve been on to the seller Kevin Dickinson at Coastal Dcc in the UK & he can’t understand why the first package was rejected as the Customs declaration form CN22 is exactly the same as that on the second package which has got through? He’s going to check with his Post Office & get back to me on it. He’s afraid to send out replacements in case the same thing happens again. The strange thing is that Royal Mail held onto the second package in Heathrow until last Sat before sending it over to Ireland? Maybe something has been sorted out?