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IRISH PEOPLE ON average send between two and three letters per month, according to a new study.
The survey from the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) found that while many reported sending the small amount of letters, 30% of people did not know many they actually sent.
Among residential consumers, 1 in 10 never send post with a further 4 in 10 sending post less often that monthly. Among residential consumers, a similar amount of important and standard mail is sent.
Around 25% of these people claim to be receiving less mail than three years ago, higher in the more rural areas.
However, it’s a different story for commercial customers.
The survey found SMEs send an average of 68 letters per month (17 per week). Larger firms send an average of 264 letters per month while companies which prepay by ceadúnas (bulk mail) or meter frank send more letters, an average of 400 a month.
But around 33% of SMEs claim to be sending less mail than 3 years ago, technology being the main reason.
The ComReg study found that two-thirds of residential consumers are satisfied with the cost of sending letter post.
However, residential consumers are not large senders of letters. The older demographic who send more letters, showed a higher level of dissatisfaction with the cost of sending letter post, according to the study.
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@sb: I think the only thing I have ever posted was my passport application…
@Shaun Barron: which you can now do online
@sb: makes sense on average. 22 Christmas cards and two speeding fines ;-)
@sb: You can even take the photos yourself and checks if they are acceptable. I got my renewal in 4 working days
I remember about 6/7 years ago an An Post delivery man saying to me as he delivered a package ordered online…”these online shopping places are keeping us in a job”.
@RogerRamjet: Still the best delivery drivers out there. DPD, DHL, UPS and the rest can’t compare.
@Cynical: I buy online and I pay for the delivery too, to deliver it to the door of the house. Usually the place where I buy use anpost. And they are leaving the item in the An post delivery office, the leave a letter lying they were at home at the time I am at home, and I have to go to collect the item myself to the delivery office. That’s laziness, they just have to ring the bell. Companies should use another service more efficient.
They had to do a survey for this ??????? Surely they have this information from how many letters an post processes. Take away the frankin machine letters and your left with how many domestic letters are sent.
@Darren Moore: We only vote every few years, still no call to do away with politicians though. Is there?
@Boyne Sharky: unfortunately. It would be worth trying
I only post my three stars into winning streak. Still no luck but fingers crossed.
Don’t think I’ve mailed anything in like 12 years
So a lab holding world’s most dangerous viruses explodes in Russia and your choice of news is how many letter people send?
@Monika Broughill: You need to calm down
@Monika Broughill: it’s sounds like you are already informed on the lab explosion but not on the letter sending rates in Ireland. It is eerie how tailored to your tastes the journal is.
@Monika Broughill: hope it’s not another Chernobyl play it down scenario
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/explosion-at-russian-centre-housing-deadly-viruses-11812256
@Monika Broughill: Wait and see the facts first? But heres one… https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/this-is-my-town-court-told-of-healyrae-claim-in-fracas-38475574.html
*per year.
Is that a good environment/ climate action news story?
There must be very few “average people” living in Ireland
I love Post!
Whats the point on this story?
To do a man/woman out of a job.
All bills or letters etc to be online,
Listen lads, Im posting 3 star winning streaks the past 20 years for a shot of that wheel, dont take that from me
Really? Are they using businesses in this survey because personally I would only send letters/Cards at Christmas
Honestly who cares.
@Mike Reynolds: obviously not you mike.
“just” 2 or three per month. I’d be lucky to send 2 or 3 personal pieces of mail per year.
I never send any letters, ever
Almost 20, and I can honestly say I have never once sent a letter in my life
How is this news
Nice to write a letter to the girlfriend n ow an then if not living under same roof lads, the ladys love it!
2 or 3 people sending the letters to each other maybe
New study shows that people tend to perspire while doing heavy manual labour.
Seriously i found a letter in a bottle once
@Mark walsh: someone was being a cheap ass
So Post man Pat and Jess are not so busy any more.
@conriel: Its Amazon busy? I bet TD’s would get the most letters per month…
And quite often they don’t reach the destination. I am working in a hotel and the amount of lost property that we are sending that are not reaching the person is crazy. AnPost response is “we are processing hundreds of thousands of parcels letters etc every day, so this is a normal thing”. Its like me telling the guest that we are processing houndreds of transactions every day so its normal thing that we have overcharge you and we will not give your money back. As AnPost does not refund monies for undelivered goods.
@Krystian Brzezowski: no only that, I buy online and I pay for the delivery too. And they leave the package in the An post delivery office, leave a letter lying they were in the house when I’m actually in the house, don’t ring the bell, pure laziness, and I have to go to collect the package myself to the delivery office. It’s not free the delivery, people actually pay for it too, companies should use another service.
Id like sell some unused stuff I have on Ebay but at the crazy high international prices AnPost charge compared to UK and USA I cannot compete with other sellers.
Per year more likely
I don’t send any, even cards. That’s what we have phones for,
Once they raised the price to a €1 , I rarely ever do , generally always print and scan , or scan and email.
Higher costs always drive customers alway , same with the banks and excessive charges.
There are always alternatives
I’d say a lot of people reduced their letter posting drastically when the PO put up the minimum stamp from 70p to one euro, I did, I thought that was a crazy thing to do at a time when more and more people had the option of using free email.
Who makes these crazy decisions?
Why not reduce your prices and maybe attract more business and make your money that way?
I expect the stamp prices will keep going up and that An Post will be privatised?
https://www.channel4.com/news/royal-mail-privatisation-postie-thatcher-union
Does that include the Christmas Card Panic???
Do they are making at least 1-2 million per month?
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