Postman escapes jail after mail dumping

A POSTMAN who dumped more than 10,000 letters over a six-month period had a four-month jail sentence suspended yesterday as the appeal court judge said the man had learned his lesson.

Daniel O’Regan of 6, Ard Abhainn, Knockraha, Co Cork, had originally pleaded guilty at Cork District Court to three charges under the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act arising out of his actions.

Judge Con O’Leary, at the time, had said: “I am not going to give a licence to postmen to dump mail. He has not put up anything in his defence to take it out of the very serious.”