Opens Oct 17.

AI visibility

What AI assistants say about An Post

We asked ChatGPT

“What are the best parcel delivery services in Ireland? Which would you recommend and why?”

An Post was among the recommendations

Also named:

DPD IrelandDHLGLSFedExUPS

“Short answer - the top parcel carriers in Ireland right now are An Post (the national postal service), DPD Ireland, DHL (Express and DHL eCommerce/Parcel Connect), GLS, and the big international couriers (FedEx and UPS). Which is “best” depends on your needs: - An Post - best for universal coverage and straightforward, often lower-cost domestic sending. It delivers to every Irish address and offers Standard and Expre…”

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90/100 AI-readiness

www.anpost.com (official site, from public records) · can the AI crawlers read the site? Checked by code, not by a model.

AI assistants can read pages when answering (robots.txt):No answer-time fetcher is fully blocked; ChatGPT (OAI-SearchBot), Perplexity (PerplexityBot), Google AI Overviews and AI Mode (Googlebot) are kept out of parts of the site.
AI models may train on the site (robots.txt):No training crawler is fully blocked; OpenAI (GPTBot), Anthropic (ClaudeBot), Google Gemini (Google-Extended), Common Crawl (CCBot) limited to parts of the site.
llms.txt for AI assistants:Not found. An llms.txt gives AI tools a reliable, curated summary of who you are.
Homepage reachable:Loads over HTTPS.
Structured data (schema.org):Found 3 JSON-LD blocks (Organization, ImageObject, WebSite, SearchAction, EntryPoint).
Title and description:Both present and descriptive.
Sitemap:Listed in robots.txt.
One live question to one assistant, asked by PollyX on Oct 15, 2026 and asked again about once a month. Assistants answer differently every time, so this is a sample, not a score. The full check asks 12 buyer questions of nine assistants and records every page each one reads. How AI visibility is measured

Is An Post the first recommendation, and how is it described?

That was one question to one assistant. The full check asks nine assistants 12 buyer questions each, shows where An Post is first, listed or absent, who is named instead, which pages the assistants read, and what to publish to change it.

Looking for what real people say? See the An Post brand sentiment snapshot.