File image of An Post's automated parcel hub in Dublin last year. Image: Sam Boal File image of An Post's automated parcel hub in Dublin last year. Image: Sam Boal AN POST HAS said it expects parcel volumes to reach 3.3 million each week between now and mid-December in Ireland’s “busiest ever online shopping fortnight”.
An Post said the increase in parcels in recent weeks has been driven by a mix of shop closures due to Covid-19 restrictions, online retail offers and early Christmas shopping. We have 1,000 extra staff helping us this Christmas and our delivery staff have new scanning technology and electric vehicles to help them get parcels and letters to customers as quickly as possible.
Never mind your grannies/granddads, Covid-19 has done what governments have been struggling to do for a long time: save An Post?
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