HAVE you posted it yet? Children wanting to contact Santa ahead of Christmas have been urged to get scribbling and post their wish list to the North Pole by next Tuesday at the latest.

AN POST could be hauled before the courts and fined under a get-tough blitz on Ireland’s below-par postal service.

AN POST is on course to break its promise to the public to deliver 80% of all mail the next day, figures have shown.

CONSUMERS are facing waits of up to three days for basic post to be delivered — with one in every four letters arriving late.

THE Government has abandoned its January 1 deadline for the introduction of a nationwide postcode address system.

THE Placenames Commission has washed its hands of responsibility for the erratic spelling of English-language locations around the country.

AFTER 20 years as postmistress in the north Cork village of Lombardstown, Catherine Anne Healy is on the verge of quitting, ending a family link with postal services in the area which reaches back across three generations.

AN POST has rejected criticisms that the company is haemorrhaging post offices following Labour Party claims that there has been a closure every 10 days since Communications Minister Noel Demspey took charge.

More than half a million letters and cards that have been stranded in London for almost a week are on their way to Ireland today.

Industrial action by postal workers will go ahead from midnight tonight is likely to be suspended again for a week from tomorrow afternoon.

Postal workers have offered to suspend their planned nationwide strike if An Post allows independent costings of work practice changes, it emerged today.

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

The Communications Workers Union has expressed pessimism about the prospects for progress at talks today on the looming strike action at An Post.

An Post has called on its workers to drop their planned strike action in pursuit of outstanding pay increases.

INDUSTRIAL unrest at a mail sorting centre in Cork could be one of the reasons behind delays in postal deliveries in Kerry, it emerged yesterday.

THE postal pile-up in Limerick took a new twist last night with An Post laying the blame on disgruntled workers.

THE National Ploughing Association of Ireland’s annual profits have increased by 57% to €606,852.

An Post says it realises the country's postal service needs to be significantly improved.

AN POST has admitted it needs to improve its service after figures revealed it fails to deliver a quarter of its mail on time.

An Post is insisting that only a small number of customers received the Referendum Commission’s abortion information booklets with literature from the "Yes" campaign enclosed.