Mail mega-hub centre problems should be sorted

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.

An Post insisted yesterday they saw no reason why the problems with the Dublin Mail Centre over Christmas should be repeated in two other new "mega-hub" centres coming into operation this year, but Minister for Communications Dermot Ahern, said: "We will just have to wait and see."

Mr Ahern summoned An Post chief executive John Hynes to a meeting yesterday morning to explain why a million Christmas cards posted on time for Christmas delivery went