An Post is inefficient and needs an overhaul

ALL those affected by the postal dispute had to make alternative, cost effective arrangements.

Meantime An Post's professed desire to implement best practice is laughable in light of its failures to achieve even 75% next-day mail delivery. The reality is that An Post is grossly inefficient but autocratically declines dialogue with those affected by its unsustainable decisions.

The postal delivery service is loss-making primarily because of the massive losses An Post incurs for having failed properly to estimate the cost of delivering mail coming into the country. An Post can't renegotiate the Rheims agreement and its Irish customers apparently must pay either through increased charges or loss of services in towns and villages.