An Post: cuts, closures and dearer stamps

IT’S BEEN announced that another sub-post office on the Beara peninsula is to close - the fourth in as many years there.

I’m sure many other sub-offices, and the communities that depend on them, face a similar fate with An Post unwilling to provide a viable grant to private individuals to take on the service.

Meanwhile, An Post wants to close over 55 branch post offices (including Clonakilty) within 12 months, and contract inferior services to private operators - ie, the same sub-office structure that is fast becoming extinct in smaller villages!