Post Offices should be a centre to renew driving licences

Dear Editor,

POST offices should be a ‘One Stop Shop’ for driving licences, and be in a position to renew them. I have raised the issue with Louth County Council.

Post offices are becoming more multi-functional, which is a welcome development, but their services should be further expanded to include the processing of driving licence renewals in the same way as passports

This would help protect rural post offices threatened with closure, and would be much more convenient for people not living near a National Driving Licence Service (NDLS) office.

Currently the Louth NDLS office is located in Southgate shopping centre, Drogheda, in County Meath – which sees Carlingford residents with an hour long journey to renew a driving licence. And on the other hand, those living across the road from the NDLS centre cannot use it, and are forced to drive to Navan to renew theirs!

‘ The whole process would be much more convenient if driving licences could be processed in Post Offices, and I am calling on Louth County Council to write to Communications Minister Denis Naughton to suggest this, as he is responsible for the Post Offices.

Yours, Frank Godfrey, Cllr.