Posting from England to Ireland

Check online at the POWebsite and you could probably find out the postage to Ireland. I don’t blame you for not wanting to stand in a queue at the PO.

Just checked - it starts at £3.40 - if your card is light, that should cover it. But please don’t go by what I say - check it yourself ..

Thank you. It does seem to be £3.40, and can go in the postbox with the right stamp and an airmail sticker.

I've just posted two to the Republic. Yes £3.40 each. I did it with Royal Mail online as we don't have a post office nearby. I paid and printed my label. In past years I've taken them into the post office. £3.40 is ridiculous.

It's best to go to postoffice for them to weigh the card ? Put EIRE on if its to Southern Ireland ... This is in European Community ... and put in ordinary postbox ...

I have agreed withmy Irish cousins that we save our money because £3.40 to me is ridiculous. We can use our computers to communicate.

Better to use Ireland than Eire in address - correct name of country when writing in English.

Eire means burden in Irish.
Éire with a fada over the E refers to the country.

I have a relative in the Republic of Ireland and always take cards etc to the post office. My recent Christmas card was £3.40. I always write Ireland after the post code, not Eire.
£3.40 is a ridiculous amount, but this is a very special relative who is definitely worth it.

It is £3.40 to anywhere in Europe plus Australia and New Zealand

Yes sadly Ireland is now 'rest of the world' so international stamp needed. There used to a special arrangement I think between the two countries or was it the EU rate? Posting parcels is an even bigger nightmare and reason why lot of commerce ceased between countries post Brexit.

I made the mistake a couple of years ago of adding a few spare first class stamps of slightly more than the value of a European stamp to post a card to Ireland. I began to doubt myself and checked in the post office and was told it would be rejected and left undelivered as it has to be the correct European stamp.

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I didn't realise until earlier in the week that a First Class stamp is now £1.70 and a Second Class 79p. Pretty shocked.

I usually send (c) 60+ cards - generally a box of very good Nativity themed ones from Costco.

But that immediately changed with the thought of nearly a £ extra for a stamp!

So today I've posted just 14 cards, but that's still an extra £11+ for the 2nd Class stamps on them.

Anyone else that I can't hand their card to personally will get an email card via my JacquieLawson cards membership.

No wonder the Post Office is in trouble!!

Does any of you ever pay £1:70 for just one 1st Class stamp now?
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Barbadosbelle
Does any of you ever pay £1:70 for just one 1st Class stamp now?

From my experiences several times this year I’ve now given up on first class. In Sept I posted my son’s birthday card 5 days ahead of his birthday with a 1st class stamp. He received it 3 days after his birthday. A few weeks ago thinking better early than late I posted my Dil’s birthday card first class 8 days ahead of her birthday. She received it 3 days late 😡

Yes, Grandma70s, last week I paid £3.40 to send one ordinary sized Christmas card to my friend in Eire. Much more than the cost of the card!

Scotland to Ireland

England to Ireland is £3.40 cheapest then upwards by size and weightb

Just to clarify, if you are posting to NORTHERN Ireland you pay the same postage as of you were posting to anywhere else in the UK, as NI is in the UK, - unlike the Republic of Ireland.

£3.40 seems the standard charge for a light card going anywhere outside UK. I paid £3.40 for a small card to Newfoundland. PO assistant didn't check what cost would be, just said in an instant, £3.40 please.

I don't agree that £3.40 (and yes it's correct I sent a card today) is ridiculous. It's the price of a coffee where I live. Ireland is another country - just like Spain or Norway. What IS ridiculous is the price of a UK first class stamp. £1.70 if it's two miles or two hundred and it doesn't even get there the next day. It's second class for me now - just have to plan ahead for birthdays etc. To send a card to another country by air - £3.40 doesn't seem a lot to me.

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Grannynannywanny

I made the mistake a couple of years ago of adding a few spare first class stamps of slightly more than the value of a European stamp to post a card to Ireland. I began to doubt myself and checked in the post office and was told it would be rejected and left undelivered as it has to be the correct European stamp.

That's not right - or at least not what the Post Office says. As long as the postage paid equals the amount due (2×first class stamps = £3.40 currently) it will be accepted. If you're not sure of the weight - maybe you enclosed a letter as well as a card - take it to the post office. You can attach an Air Mail sticker or just write that on the envelope.

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Barbadosbelle

A second class stamp is actually 87p.