Pretty much guarenteed 1 day delivery to anywhere in Ireland.
*envy*
Mail delivery in Austria and Germany is hell. A letter within Vienna usually takes 3 days, if you're very lucky it arrives within 2 days. When a letter is posted monday morning and arrives on tuesday this is a plain miracle.
All letters posted after 16:00 will be delivered as if they had been posted the next morning, except for they're posted at the GPO. Nearly all roadside mail boxes are emptied once a day, at 4 pm.
After the central computerized sorting center was opened things got even worse. After the opening thousands of letters were just stuck and delivered after weeks, in some areas they had to deliver on saturdays to get anywhere near schedule. By now this has gone back to routine.
Oh yes, most of the postmen are the worst and most stupid idiots I ever encountered. A typical view in apartment houses are piles of letters atop the mail boxes, they were put in the wrong mail box and the owner of the mail box put them up for the recipient.
Yes, Fuenfzehn Uhr Zweiunddreissig is the German/Austrian time format. However, if you ask somebody you'll probably hear: Half four or 2 past half four. For extended clarification "in the morning" and "in the afternoon" is added. The 24 hour format is mostly used for writing and on digital clocks.
