Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

An Post made the bombshell announcement last Thursday evening at 4 o'clock that it was downgrading the office in Davis Street in Tipperary town. Some six staff and one manager have been employed in that location since the 1980s. Tipperary had a lot of hammer blows last week with a number of restaurants closing. On one hand the task force does great work and yet Government State agencies do this. An Post said it will advertise to get a private contractor or perhaps co-locate in a shop but we have no idea where, or who would be interested in this because the remuneration is not good. I believe An Post is doing eight of these at the moment and there will only be 40 post offices left directly in the chain. An Post is downgrading and offloading these services all the time, without due regard to the staff. I might add there are excellent staff in this office who do tremendous work and who have a great relationship with their customers. It is very unfair of An Post.

This could go anywhere. First, they do not know if people are interested. There needs to be some reassurance for the staff and the people of Tipperary so that they will have a post office going forward.

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