An Post may cut delivery days as mail volumes fall and costs surge

Given the challenges being faced by An Post, ministers were told some of the options being explored include fundamental changes to how post is handled. Picture Denis Minihane.

An Post could be forced to change the frequency or speed of postal deliveries due to costs and changing consumer habits, ministers have been told.

The postal service’s annual report was brought to Cabinet by communications minister Patrick O’Donovan yesterday. It showed that, while profits were up, there was an “inexorable decline” in overall mail numbers.