{"id":126907,"date":"2023-10-13T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T08:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/report-shows-irish-postal-deliveries-are-down-from-covid-peak\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:18:41","slug":"report-shows-irish-postal-deliveries-are-down-from-covid-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/report-shows-irish-postal-deliveries-are-down-from-covid-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Report shows Irish Postal Deliveries are down from Covid peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ComReg collects data from parcel delivery service providers. This data provides insights on parcel deliveries in Ireland and the trend shows the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic had on parcel deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>The latest data collected shows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns increased parcel deliveries in 2020 and 2021.<\/li>\n<li>With the return to normality in 2022, there was a decrease in both parcel revenue and parcel volumes in 2022 compared to 2021.<\/li>\n<li>However, despite the decrease last year, parcel deliveries in Ireland were still up from the pre-Covid pandemic years, 2018 and 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Comparing 2022 to 2019 (pre-pandemic):\n<ul>\n<li>Parcel delivery revenue has increased by almost \u20ac300m (by just over a half, 52%).<\/li>\n<li>Parcel volumes has increased by 32 million parcels (30% increase), mainly in the domestic segment (posted in Ireland for delivery in Ireland).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further information can be found in ComReg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/publication-download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The press release is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/media\/2023\/10\/ComReg-PR-13.10.23-Gaeilge.pdf\">as Ghaeilge<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/media\/2023\/10\/ComReg-PR-13.10.23.pdf\">in English<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComReg collects data from parcel delivery service providers. This data provides insights on parcel deliveries in Ireland and the trend shows the impact that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/report-shows-irish-postal-deliveries-are-down-from-covid-peak\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":126589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[656,658,659],"class_list":["post-126907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuacht-tomhaltora","tag-consumer-ga","tag-news-ga","tag-postal-services-ga"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137704,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126907\/revisions\/137704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}