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There are now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_addresses_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland#Eircode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_addresses_in_the_Republ...

• Macha 6y ago
  Driven primarily by frustration with foreign companies expecting post codes - the postal service was late to computerising which paid off in having better OCR/address lookup when they finally did so actually said they were pretty indifferent to the implementation of postcodes.
  • arp242 6y ago
    When I got a (remote) Irish jobs a few years ago I had to fill in a post code at my tax service and a few other things, and I also had to fill in an address in the format of "street number". This makes perfect sense in the Netherlands, and I can't really blame Dutch folk for not knowing that Ireland doesn't have postal codes and that not all houses have house numbers (but rather house names). tl;dr: making stuff international is hard.
  • soneil 6y ago
    I have to say my experience with posties in Ireland has surpassed my experience with postcodes. I feel like the most valid "post code" would just be the name of the postman they should ask if they're not sure. But I have to call out Ryanair in this context. For many years, before eircode, they demanded a postcode on their payment page. An Irish company, serving Irish customers, demanded postcodes when most the country didn't have them. (And I paypal still believes my postcode is null. I don't recall ever entering that, so I wonder where/when it derived that.)