An Post to miss next-day delivery target

AN POST is on course to break its promise to the public to deliver 80% of all mail the next day, figures have shown.

Yesterday, postal watchdog ComReg revealed just 79% of letters posted between July and September arrived the next day — short of the government target of 94%.

ComReg’s latest quarterly findings reflect an Irish Examiner survey, published earlier this month, that found just 73% of mail arrived on time with one in four letters late.