A postman who was dismissed for stealing post lost his case against An Post for compensation yesterday.

A security man with An Post who claimed he suffered from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following the tiger kidnapping of a colleague’s family has lost his High Court damages action against his employer.

Postal services face further disarray today as An Post repeated its warning to the public not to post any letters or parcels because of a strike involving staff at a subcontractor’s company.

A North Cork postman sentenced to three months in jail after admitting to stealing cash from envelopes has lost his unfair dismissal case against An Post.

The High Court has dismissed a mail sorter’s claims she was subjected to a campaign of bullying and harassment which left her “terrified” about returning to her job in a Dublin sorting centre, the High Court heard.

An Post has apologised after a three-year old girl’s letter to Santa was sent back to her — nearly a month after she had posted it to Lapland.

If anyone is looking to send a letter of congratulations to Rob Heffernan, it seems you don’t even need his address — just pop “Gold Medal Winner” on the envelope and An Post will get it to him.

The High Court has dismissed a challenge by a postmaster who claimed An Post unfairly terminated his contract four months after his son was kidnapped by armed tiger raiders.

An Post officials were heckled last night as they closed for the last time a post office which has served a Cork community for a century.

The General Secretary of the Irish Postmasters Union has said he is not surprised that An Post says it needs to axe 2,000 jobs by 2015 as a result of the recession.

MEMBERS of the public are being warned to be vigilant about mail which will fall through up to 1,000 doors in the coming days as part of a sophisticated scam.

DAVID O’LOUGHLIN (An Post/Sean Kelly) attempts to win the Elite road race championship for a fourth time at Dunboyne on Sunday.

THE family of a legendary composer who taught music at University College Cork (UCC) over five decades has asked An Post to issue a stamp to commemorate the centenary of his birth.

UNIONS at An Post have defended a manager with the company who was paid about €100,000, despite working only a fifth of the year.

A new postage stamp to be launched today marks the 150th anniversary of the first cable message from Europe to America.

JUST a week after winning the coveted Route du Sud in the Pyrenees, Daniel Martin returned to Ireland to claim the shamrock jersey of the national champion with another power-packed display on the Ballinacurra circuit, near Midleton, yesterday.

A €90,000 payout has been handed to a former postal worker discriminated against because of his age, it emerged today.

An Post has today apologised to a Labour candidate after his election leaflets were dropped through letterboxes stapled to voters’ polling cards.

AN POST has been ordered to pay a former employee more than €70,000 compensation for preventing him applying for a job because he was over 60.

A Dáil TD today asked whether Defence Minister Willie O’Dea would lead the 1916 anniversary parade brandishing a pistol.

Postal customers were facing disruption from industrial action today, despite the emergence of a compromise deal between An Post and unions.

Postal workers are set to go on strike from midnight tomorrow.

Postal workers tonight announced that strike action will begin at midnight on Sunday.

Motorists in Dublin city centre are facing chaos today as several thousand striking postal workers march on Leinster House.

Paul O'Brien

THERE was angry reaction from the public and private sector yesterday to news that An Post is seeking a 14.5% increase in the price of a stamp from the communications regulator, ComReg.

WORKERS were shocked and “betrayed” last night at An Post’s announcement that it will seek 270 job cuts in its loss making parcels and courier division, SDS.

THE Communications Workers Union (CWU) is this morning preparing for legal action in a bid to force An Post to reinstate more than 500 suspended employees.

The national executive of the Communications Workers Union is meeting in Dublin this afternoon to discuss the next step in its dispute with An Post.

A resolution to the escalating postal crisis looked a long way off tonight despite both sides entering into mediation talks.

MAIL posted in Donegal to Donegal is to be sorted in Athlone and returned under a carbon copy of the new centralised sorting system that left a million Christmas cards on the east coast undelivered for a week.

TOM KELLEHER estimates that An Post values his role in running a stand-alone sub-post office at 2 euro an hour.

A Labour senator is threatening to take An Post to court unless it stops stamping his post with the Fianna Fail logo.