Postal workers to sort out mail at home

A two-day closure of sorting offices attached to 450 sub post offices is due to begin on Friday in an escalation of a pay row between the Post Masters Union and An Post.

An Post were last night in discussions with the union representing postmen and women in a bid to ensure that mail deliveries can take place.

The alternative arrangements would involve postmen collecting mail for delivery from An Post main offices and in some cases to sort it in their own homes.