Elderly and disabled will still get postal service

AN Post insisted yesterday that the elderly and disabled will continue to get mail delivered to their door — even if the outdoor letter boxes are introduced.

This follows revelations the company plans to end door-to door deliveries countrywide and bring in secure outdoor letter boxes that could save it up to €35 million a year.

The State group which is in financial crisis, has issued a tender for 500,000 letter boxes with locks and plans to begin deploying them by June.