An Post service falls 20% below next-day target

AN POST’S performance in delivering standard mail has fallen to 20% below target, the latest report shows.

Figures released yesterday by the communications regulator, Comreg, show that 74% of standard mail was delivered within one working day throughout Ireland in the first quarter of this year.

That is against a next-day-delivery target of 94%, and is a drop of 2% in quality of service copmared the first quarter of 2005.