SOME of the country’s most expensive addresses are experiencing the slowest mail deliveries because of a dispute involving postal staff.

ONE postman will earn €86,500 this year, when his overtime pay is included. The top ten earning post workers will earn nearly €800,000 among them by the year’s end, according to figures obtained by The Irish Examiner.

The Communications Workers Union is considering industrial action in protest at An Post's failure to deliver wage increases due under the social partnership process.