AN POST has asked customers not to post mail to much of south Dublin until further notice because of a backlog caused by industrial relations difficulties in two delivery offices.
The company says delays of up to five days are being experienced in delivering mail from its offices in Blackrock and Dublin 4. Post office counter services, as well as parcel and courier deliveries, are operating as normal.
The areas from which An Post says customers should not send letters are Blackrock, Booterstown, Stillorgan, Mount Merrion and Deansgrange, which are all covered by the Blackrock delivery office, as well as addresses in Dublin 4.
A spokeswoman said the problems were being caused by a small number of staff in the two offices who were refusing to co-operate with new working arrangements which had been agreed with the Communications Workers Union. The company was working with the union to achieve a resolution to the dispute, she said.
Seán McDonagh of the CWU said substantial changes had been introduced in An Post under an agreement reached two years ago. A small number of staff were having difficulty adjusting to the scale of the changes in the two offices, he said.