Isle of Man Post Office bid to cut emissions outline in report

In the report the body said that the scrapping of the use of the Royal Mail’s aircraft for next day delivery in October was expected to save 600 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year – a figure that would be included in the following year’s report.

Plans to further reduce the post office’s environmental footprint include installing solar panels on its headquarters in Braddan.

While an application to put in the technology using funding from the climate change fund was rejected, the board have since agreed to using internal resources and would launch a tender process, the report said.

Continued efforts to convert its fleet to electric vehicles have also been put on the agenda, something Mr Kneen said the board had “committed to converting its diesel fleet to lower emission vehicles over the next five years”.

The first report was expected to be the benchmark for future comparison, and was an “excellent way to capture” the benefits of the body’s efforts, he said.

A shift to “more sustainable operations” was being seen across the postal industry, he added.