An Post has increased standard domestic stamp prices with effect from 19 March 2020, while investing in new Irish parcels facilities and has made Dublin the first capital city globally with zero emissions postal delivery.
The price of a standard domestic stamp will increase from €1 to €1.10 and a standard international stamp from €1.70 to €1.80. The domestic price increase, the first in three years (since April 2017), reflects other European postal services’ price increases over the past three years and keeps An Post tariffs in line with the European average.
Moreover, the company is now working on Phase 2 of its Parcel Investment Plan, investing in its future. Underway is a new fully-automated sorting facility for smaller parcels and packages at the Dublin Mails Centre in Clondalkin which will process 70,000 items daily.
Over the past three years, An Post has extended its delivery service across the country to six days a week as well as evenings, and invested in the Dublin Parcel Hub, which sorted 3.5 million Christmas parcels during December 2019.
The company also developed a digital platform including Click & Post for 24/7 service and invested in Ireland’s largest electric fleet for 100% emission-free delivery in all Irish cities by the end of 2020.
For now, An Post has successfully established itself as the first postal service provider in the world to attain zero carbon emission delivery status in a capital city.
With the addition of Ireland’s first ever 7.5 tonne Electric Trucks, Fuso eCanters, to its existing electric fleet, every An Post letter and parcel delivery in Dublin City Centre is emission free, carried by 47 zero emission vehicles, avoiding 450 tonnes of CO2 and benefitting the health and air quality of 512,000 people living and working in the city each day.
Zero carbon emission delivery will be rolled out to Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford by the end of 2020 benefiting the lives of another 700,000 people.
The company has already invested €7.5 million in its Electric Fleet of 212 Electric Vehicles and this number will exceed 900 within two years. All of An Post’s electricity comes from renewable resources.
