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Yesterday our son who lives in Dublin asked us to send him a document urgently.  First visit to local PO said it would take 5 to 10 days and there was no way to speed it up unless from a major PO,  so off into central Bristol with the usual parking sites and fees and the package went off from there with a promised delivery in 1 or 2 days but at a cost of £20....wow!..but it had to get there so the cost was paid and later we were able to watch it's progress on the PC and within hours it went Bristol/Birmingham/Stanstead/Dublin.
It did bring to mind the fact that we can get a letter to Spain in three days at less than £1 - to Australia in 5
days for less than £1 - to USA same and to South Africa 6/7 days.  What on earth has happened with the Irish Republic?   Later in the evening we worked out that we could have flown Ryanair from Bristol handed the packet over in Dublin Airport and back on the return flight for not much more than the postage.