A puzzle for An Post

Postal losses How absolutely right Tánaiste Simon Coveney is when he says, in a warning sort of way, that if people want to retain local post offices they must use them, adding that the country’s An Post network is facing serious challenges and “modern realities”.

How absolutely right Tánaiste Simon Coveney is when he says, in a warning sort of way, that if people want to retain local post offices they must use them, adding that the country’s An Post network is facing serious challenges and “modern realities”.

It’s a given that services un-used — be they local post offices and bank branches or local bus and rail routes — go under eventually.