An Post asking customers to bear with them as it deals with a 130% increase in the volume of packages and parcels compared to 2019. 

Parcel volumes have “peaked beyond Christmas volumes” but An Post stressed that “everything is under control” as it moves through the busy period. 

So yesterday Andrea went out and joined John Manning, a postman here in Dublin – to see what life is like at the moment for some of Ireland’s busiest workers. 

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