EITHNE FITZGERALD,
Sir, - Registered post has become a way to virtually ensure that people do not receive their intended post.
Ordinary mail is delivered quite safely to an empty house, but people with a day job are rarely present to sign for a registered letter during normal working hours.
It can be a major chore to collect the offending letter from the sorting office if the normal journey takes you in the opposite direction. And it is hardly fair to ask a neighbour to stay in to sign for the letter when the time of delivery cannot be specified by An Post.
Worst of all is the registered letter that arrives when you are on holidays. After five days languishing uncollected in the sorting office, it is returned to sender.
If you don't know who sent it to you, you cannot trace your mysterious correspondent. And your correspondent may in turn conclude you have moved house or that s/he had the address wrong.
Why not trust your important letters to the ordinary mail, and simply get a certificate of posting? It's certainly easier on the intended recipient! -
Yours, etc.,
EITHNE FITZGERALD, Clonard Avenue, Dublin 16.