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In Ireland it's just XXX XXXX (each property gets assigned with a unique EirCode)

notafraudster 4y ago
And in Dublin, the first three exactly match the city area (e.g. D01 for Dublin 1) -- though outside the city the first three become less obvious. Just the same, it's incredibly annoying that ecommerce sites still generally require full addresses rather than just using the An Post Eircode lookup thing to map an entered Eircode to an address.
closewith 4y ago
Although An Post don't use EirCodes, so I wonder if an EirCode alone is enough? Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/an-post-staff-fail-to-use-38m-eircode-system-to-deliver-mail-g685gl6lm https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/an-post-staff-fail-to-use...
- jimlongton 4y ago
  Interesting large delivery companies do not use EirCode either. It was not primarily designed for deliveries but taxation. It's still annoys me to this day. The Irish government had a problem administering Property tax and the TV Licence due to data sharing restrictions between departments. Unique Eircodes per property was the solution. This was explicitly stated by the Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte at the time of launch. The proposed Broadcasting Charge to replace TV licenses was not rolled out due to public opposition but EirCodes remain. Due to their random nature they are also less useful to emergency services. Delivery companies have taken courtcases against the government over the EirCode rollout and there is an ongoing courtcase over allegations of corruption relating to the awarding of the EirCode contract[1]. [1] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/11/28/firm-claims-conspiracy-over-awarding-of-eircode-contract/ https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/11/28/firm-claims-c...
  - closewith 4y ago
    > Due to their random nature they are also less useful to emergency services. That's not my experience at all. They've been a revolution in address resolution at NEOC in my experience, and they're used for navigation on nearly every emergency call.
- pshirshov 4y ago
  If I write just an EirCode on an envelope the letter would be delivered anyways.
  - closewith 4y ago
    Are you sure? It might be a case of someone in the system Googling the address and writing it in.
    - pshirshov 4y ago
      I've tried to do that several times, it always worked. I don't know why/how but it works.
M2Ys4U 4y ago
The UK also has UPRNs (Unique Property Reference Numbers),[0] although they've only recently become a publicly-licensed dataset [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Property_Reference_Number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Property_Reference_Numb...

And in Dublin, the first three exactly match the city area (e.g. D01 for Dublin 1) -- though outside the city the first three become less obvious. Just the same, it's incredibly annoying that ecommerce sites still generally require full addresses rather than just using the An Post Eircode lookup thing to map an entered Eircode to an address.

closewith 4y ago

Although An Post don't use EirCodes, so I wonder if an EirCode alone is enough? Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/an-post-staff-fail-to-use-38m-eircode-system-to-deliver-mail-g685gl6lm https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/an-post-staff-fail-to-use...

jimlongton 4y ago
Interesting large delivery companies do not use EirCode either. It was not primarily designed for deliveries but taxation. It's still annoys me to this day. The Irish government had a problem administering Property tax and the TV Licence due to data sharing restrictions between departments. Unique Eircodes per property was the solution. This was explicitly stated by the Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte at the time of launch. The proposed Broadcasting Charge to replace TV licenses was not rolled out due to public opposition but EirCodes remain. Due to their random nature they are also less useful to emergency services. Delivery companies have taken courtcases against the government over the EirCode rollout and there is an ongoing courtcase over allegations of corruption relating to the awarding of the EirCode contract[1]. [1] https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/11/28/firm-claims-conspiracy-over-awarding-of-eircode-contract/ https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/11/28/firm-claims-c...
- closewith 4y ago
  > Due to their random nature they are also less useful to emergency services. That's not my experience at all. They've been a revolution in address resolution at NEOC in my experience, and they're used for navigation on nearly every emergency call.
pshirshov 4y ago
If I write just an EirCode on an envelope the letter would be delivered anyways.
- closewith 4y ago
  Are you sure? It might be a case of someone in the system Googling the address and writing it in.
  - pshirshov 4y ago
    I've tried to do that several times, it always worked. I don't know why/how but it works.

M2Ys4U 4y ago

The UK also has UPRNs (Unique Property Reference Numbers),[0] although they've only recently become a publicly-licensed dataset [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Property_Reference_Number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Property_Reference_Numb...