Post Office Network Sending Out an SOS for Government Funding

Two more Cork post offices to close - and one to open

The company said it was 'impossible' to keep both services running

Post office network sending out an SOS for Government funding

Hundreds of post offices across the country are facing closure if emergency funding is not issued, it has been warned. A significant new report by the Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU) found that Ireland’s network urgently requires a strategic investment of € 15 million per year over five years to secure essential community services. The report, which was produced by Grant Thornton, places a figure of between €344 million and € 776 million on the a…

“The new CEO of Posti is not afraid of the expected fierce competition and does not consider it impossible to even privatize the post office,” SK reported in May 2000. Jukka Alho assured that letters and parcels will continue to be delivered to the ends of the country.