All-Ireland tickets and false teeth get stuck in the post

AGITATED customers yesterday bombarded An Post in Limerick after more than 20,000 items — including All-Ireland hurling final tickets and blood samples — were delayed because of a bizarre new delivery system.

An Post sends all post from Limerick to Cork to be sorted even if the letters are destined for Limerick. Under the system, introduced last weekend, a letter posted by a firm in Limerick to another firm in the same building has to be sent on a 132-mile round trip to Cork for sorting, before being delivered.

The system is delaying deliveries in the city by two to three days.