An Post demand for post office subvention falls on deaf ears
The Government has rejected An Post’s demands to subvent its post
office network, but accepted the business is no longer viable in its
current form
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Report to suggest merging of post offices and shops
Up to 800 unprofitable post offices should be amalgamated with retail
services or established as Government services outlets, according to
an official report to be published this week. (Republic of Ireland)
Post.Trust, the e-security division of the Irish Post Office, selects Arcot to provide nation-wide digital user authentication
Arcot Systems, Inc., the leading provider of solutions for securing e-business in Internet-scale, transactional and wireless environments, today announced that it has signed a deal with Post.Trust, the e-security division of Ireland’s national postal service An Post, to distribute Arcot digital identities. These identities are validated through face-to-face verification as part of the Post.Trust certification process.
In the future this technology could see digital identities (ArcotID(tm)) provided to the entire population of 4 million
Read MorePost offices face rising losses of around £82m in five years
Revenue at An Post grew by £26 million (#33 million) to £451.2 million but
operating profits fell £2.8 million to £7.7 million.
Radical plan to save rural post offices
A radical scheme to transform rural post offices into government information `one-stop-shops’ which also provide banking services is among the proposals under scrutiny by the government. Anxiety is mounting over the future of 1,900 sub-post offices, following predictions from An Post that its post office division would show a £13 million loss this year. Group chief executive John Hynes last week described the losses as “unsustainable”.
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