An Post Loses Roadside Letter Box Decision
An Post has threatened a price rise following yesterday’s decision by the communications regulator that the company cannot force customers to accept roadside letter boxes. ComReg chairwoman, Ms Etain Doyle, said An Post would be breaking the law if it went ahead with plans to oblige customers to accept deliveries to a postbox at the side of the road in place of a doorstep service. The plan was ‘fundamental’ to the company’s survival, according to An Post. The service stands to lose at least E18 million this year. Speaking after her decision yesterday, Ms Doyle said that widespread mandatory provision of roadside letter boxes was ‘neither possible in legal terms, nor desirable’. An Post must have the customer’s consent before they can provide a letter box, Ms Doyle has ordered.
