I got an offical letter back from An Post via email today.

''Dear Sir/Madam

Unfortunately the International Reply Coupon service which catered for this situation ceased 3-4 years ago as it was not prooving to be a cost effective product. An Post do not sell US stamps so the only way of overcoming this problem is to include bankdraft in US dollars with your mailing to the USA so they can purchase the required postage to mail something back to your Irish address. Or alternitavly buying a IRC from a Northern Ireland/UK Post office branch.

Yours sincerely


Michael Sullivan
Customer Services
An Post ''

GRR!!!!! Its so unfortunate but not the end of the world.....

I dont know the exact amount but for me to post to the US it costs around 90p - In american dollars thats around $1.80 cents, but I normally put around $2.00 worth of stamps on my envelope just to be sure!

Brookton

How many stamps do you need for posting back from the US? Im pretty new to all this....

Hi cianod25,

Yep, you can buy IRCs at many post offices in the UK. Another way of sending the payment for postage is to include that countries stamps on your return envelope.
Hope this helps!

Brookton

They don't sell them in Ireland!!!! (Really wiered, i asked the lady at the central and the BIGGEST post office in the middle of dublin and she hadn't heard of them!) Are you able to buy IRC's in the UK???