Union calls for postcode reports to be made public

Communications Workers Union general secretary Steve Fitzpatrick has challenged the Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan to publish two consultant reports on the introduction of postcodes.

Mr Fitzpatrick also called for the publication of a previous report prepared at the request of the Department of Communications by an industry expert group which he said had also never been made public.

He said: "For the last number of weeks, the public, media and postal workers have been bombarded with propaganda on the 'benefits' of postcodes and a completely fictional timescale and cost assumptions for their introduction into the Irish postal system."

He added that postal workers view the introduction of postcodes as a very real threat to their pay and conditions, and to the quality of postal services to the public.