If there was a global league table for national postal services, then Ireland’s An Post must rank highly. A Mr Shane Crumlish would surely agree. For despite only having a barely legible address and an unreadable name scrawled in a blackmarker pen to go on, two local postmen somehow managed to figure out Mr Crumlish, who lives in Carndonagh in County Donegal, was the intended recipient of a poorly labelled parcel. The posties managed to decipher the label by sticking notes on the parcel with helpful suggestions, such as “Try Carndonagh, Co Donegal.” Eventually the trail led to a very impressed Mr Crumlish: “How this got here, I just don’t know,” Mr Crumlish told BBC Radio Foyle. “I’ve been talking to the postman, John from Moville. Between himself and another postman they have done a bit of head-storming and came up with the idea: ‘It must be for Shane.'” All part and parcel of the service Mr Crumlish.
