An Post declines to reveal nature or source of personal information sales

An Post has reiterated that it uses only “publicly available information” relating to the State’s census in order to categorise the marital and economic status of Irish citizens. Picture: Denis Minihane.

An Post has reiterated that it uses only “publicly available information” relating to the State’s census in order to categorise the marital and economic status of Irish citizens.

However, the postal service has declined to say what the nature of that public information is nor what the specific source is, despite receiving a number of queries on the matter.