An Post plans up to 80,000 delivery boxes

-Online shopping boom prompts move

The boom in online shopping has prompted An Post to plan providing up to 80,000 customers with delivery boxes for when they are not at home to receive their goods.

Householders or businesses will be able to install them on their outside walls to allow larger items be left by the postman for quick collection, saving the hassle and cost of trips to local delivery centres for undelivered parcels.