East Cork postmaster: I was the only human being she met for the week

Paddy O’Shea, who has been running a post office for the last 37 years in East Cork, believes he will be out of business in three to five years.

East Cork postmaster: I was the only human being she met for the week

He was speaking in Dublin yesterday where the Irish Postmasters’ Union held a demonstration outside the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment saying that the Government was “overseeing the demise” of the national postal network.

“I’m in Aghada in East Cork. I’ve a middle-sized office and it’s in a small village and obviously, we give great service but it [business] is dropping all the time,” Mr O’Shea told the Irish Examiner.

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