Time-plates on post-boxes

Madam, - As a keen letter-writer and good customer of An Post, I am both baffled and dismayed by the continual disappearance …

Madam, - As a keen letter-writer and good customer of An Post, I am both baffled and dismayed by the continual disappearance of the time-plates from the post-boxes in my area. On enquiring, I was told this was the work of children, - and that nothing could be done about it, sorry to say.

Is it too much to hope that An Post will find a way to solve this problem? I'm sure I'm not the only one tired of trekking to the GPO or delivering letters by hand "just to be on the safe side, you know". There must be a solution, surely? - Yours, etc.,

BRENDA O'HANRAHAN, Park Lane, Dublin 4.