Post Office Not Delivering Says Farmers For Action (FFA)
The Farmers For Action’s Committee have been receiving alarm bells from livestock marts, rural businesses, farmers and others across Northern Ireland who are complaining bitterly for quite some time about letters in particular arriving at their destination.
They say that some letters may be “days late, and even weeks late and some not at all due to the Post Office not delivering on their promise of service.”
Sean McAuley, FFA member said: “This scenario is causing huge financial stress in many cases, where businesses are not receiving cheques in the post.
“Nor yet able to get their cheques delivered on time and yet the situation with the Post Office seems to be in limbo or getting worse said thee FFA committee.
“We want to make clear that there are some very hard-working rural postmen and staff trying to do their job, but being let down by the sorting office in Belfast – where the FFA’s information is that parcels being more profitable -are getting priority over letters, even at today’s increased cost of a letter post.
“Another weak link seems to be the use of agency staff in the Post Office across Northern Ireland filling gaps and getting paid more money and caring less than the dedicated Post Office staff who then have to pick up the pieces.
“In short, the Post Office’s new owner in the Czech Republic needs to hear what’s going on on the ground – sort it out and offer Northern Ireland’s rural community an apology.”
Sean McAuley said that at this point, the FFA “can confirm that a letter is on its way to the man at the top in the Czech Republic to find out what he is made of!”
“It is no longer acceptable for rural Northern Ireland to have to accept a failing postal service, failing mobile phone and internet services, failing infrastructure services, depleting hospital services and rural school closures – this all points to a failing Stormont on the bigger picture,” said Sean.
