Postal deliveries hit across country after second day of strike

POSTAL deliveries in small communities across the country were delayed again yesterday morning on the second day of industrial action by members of the Irish Postmasters Union.

An Post put special arrangements in place to ensure the 47,000 CAO offers arrived on students’ doorsteps as dispute over payment for the early morning sorting of post continued.

IPU general secretary John Kane said the industrial action resulted in almost 600 postmasters again refusing to sort mail between 6am and 8am. This delay led to deliveries arriving up to two hours late from rural sub post offices.