Post offices

POSTMASTERS are to mount a nationwide campaign for people to vote against the Government if action is not taken on sustaining post offices before the next General Election. The Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU) claims that An Post runs the network on a purely commercial basis and does not recognise post offices’ social or community value. IPU General Secretary Ned O’Hara said: “We are calling on the Government to intervene and bind An Post to operate the network according to an agreed policy framework which is developed by the Oireachtas and recognises Post Offices as a National Asset.”