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IF YOU DIDN’T catch it last weekend, there is a rogue individual out there testing the cognitive processing of An Post workers to its limit.
David Curran has been sending out packages with the addresses that appear scrambled in a variety of different puzzles.
Now, the latest package from Dave has found its way to RTÉ’s The John Murray Show.
The unconventional letter was able to be delivered after a sliding puzzle game had been solved. An Post workers were required to rearrange the squares in the game to reveal the package’s destination.
While the postal service has been taking the packages in good humour, it also made the point that it might be time to “put a muzzle on the puzzle” and allow them to get on with the business of delivering letters.
An Post / Twitter@johnmurrayshow @iamreddave Ah thanks, we enjoyed playing, but maybe it's time now to put a muzzle on the puzzle as we've mail to deliver :)
— An Post (@Postvox) June 10, 2015
Speaking to TheJournal.ie last weekend, Curran said, “I think it is amazing how people will try and figure this stuff out.”
On the letters being delivered, Head of Communications for An Post, Anna McHugh, said:
This is yet more proof that we have the smartest, sharpest postal staff in the world. And many would say the most attractive, best-dressed postmen and postwomen too!
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An Post is great. My Polish friend had a letter delivered with just his name and the town on it, no street address. He still got it. Really friendly too in the offices. Big respect An Post.
It’s not the norm and I think anything that throws a curveball during your normal working day is a positive, mentally speaking.
The less curveballs the better.Most people just want to do their job and go home.
I like to have fun in work. I spend a third of the day there. I also make a really good bed. I spend another third of the day there. I like to treat myself, all the time.
The arrogance of this guy, thinking that An Post workers have nothing better to be doing than solving his indulgent puzzles just so he can blog about it & get some media attention.
Cheer up you grumpy ballocks! :D
I’d I’ve binned it.
People who do interesting or different things for fun are certainly a blight on our society.
I was able to solve that by looking at the thumbnail picture….
This will be how difficult it will be for everyone else to use Eircodes
When I worked for a call centre a number of years ago, a client decided to paint in oil pictures which had my address on them. I still have a few of them framed here. They are works of beauty. They were sent to me in Dublin, from addresses in Germany. Not puzzles, but little works of art.
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