Slightly off topic but.....Postcodes

Solair

vector, i wouldn't like to drive a D reg car in Cork City on a long term basis.

hardly universally acceptable!

Sarsfield

I would venture to suggest it's not the registrations that are stupid, it's people

vector

ok lets reduce universal to mostly

Imagine you live in SO (Sligo) and neighbour gets a different car
it its SO, thats ok, if its KY then its obvious that it is a second hand car, but if its D then maybe its a fleet car/company car, that is what I meant. A D reg fits in anywhere

(BTW the above is just an example and I don't condone such snobbery)

Solair

It's the same everywehre though. There was HELL in London when they first introduced 071 and 081 phone codes. (the original london code was, like Dublin, 01)

071 was perceived to be snobbier than 081... So, there were reports of some people actually renting lines in 071 parts of london (e.g. a spare line at a friends/family members) and having the calls forwarded to their 081 real number!!!

Same for the Dublin postal district numbers and in Cork and elsewhere suburbs mysteriously stretch.

People will always find something to be snobby about..

e.g. Beverly Hills 90210 ... there's a snotty post code!

paulm17781

I kid you not. After I read this thread (About car regs), I heard a guy in work wants to do seperate Regs for each Council in Dublin.

byrnefm

It's all gone very quiet over the concept of introducing postcodes in Ireland - does anyone have any idea what the story is now? In July last, I emailed comreg and asked and got the following reply at the time - but haven't seen anything on the Comreg website since the reply.

With regard to your query on postcodes

Noel Dempsey T.D. The Minister for Communications Marine and Natural Resources appointed a National Postcode Project Board to advance a postcodes project in 2005. [snip] The Minister asked ComReg to engage Project Mangers with the necessary technical expertise to design a suitable postcode and to subject it to a full cost benefit analysis. ComReg following the Minister’s request and acting on the National Postcode Project Board’s recommendation let tow contracts to Version 1 Software for the technical design and PA Consulting to undertake the Cost Benefit. Work on both projects is now being finalized and a report recommended by the Board is to be submitted to the Minister shortly.

Some related links on this matter include

http://www.comreg.ie/publications/default.asp?nid=101938&ctype=5
http://www.comreg.ie/publications/default.asp?nid=101285&ctype=5

(Btw: I don't believe there is any new information here that isn't already on the comreg.ie website from the various Comreg articles).

watty

There have been postcodes for years. An Post uses them for commercial advantage in Direct mailing. No doubt connected to fact the rest of use don't know what they are. Dublin has NOT got postcodes either. those are area codes, really just like extra counties.

Lots of web sites get upset. I put ROI or NA It's a scandal, not unrelated to Broadband or line rental scandals.

thebman

watty wrote:

There have been postcodes for years. An Post uses them for commercial advantage in Direct mailing. No doubt connected to fact the rest of use don't know what they are. Dublin has NOT got postcodes either. those are area codes, really just like extra counties.

Lots of web sites get upset. I put ROI or NA It's a scandal, not unrelated to Broadband or line rental scandals.

The worst is are the ones that check your ZIP code and if its not an American ZIP code, tell you its invalid even though they are selling stuff internationally over the Internet. 90210 is the one I use.

We need Zip codes to avoid this crap about them online if nothing else.

My mate signed up for online poker and used 90210 for Zip code with address somewhere, Co.Clare and they rang him to find out what the story was. He said we don't use post codes and the guy didn't understand. Had to explain it slowly then that he was from Ireland and in Ireland there are no Zip codes.

Blaster99 wrote:

Not that this is the place for it, but the Irish reg system is not sensible. All it does is devalue cars quicker because of reg number/county snobbery.

That exists in every country. People in Britain know what the region their codes correspond to and are snobby about which they'll buy aswell. People with no real worries in their lives need something to worry about.

byrnefm

Funny, I sort of remember that Internet ordering was one of the reasons why postcodes were touted as being useful for Ireland, for reasons such as those mentioned above Visitors are often amazed at the fact that 40% of Irish addresses do not have a unique address .. and one street in Carlow where my sister lived had three number 7's on the same street :rolleyes:

watty

New Street In Limerick has each block as a terrace name, so goes 1,2,3, 1,2,3,4, 1,2 1,2,3, etc all the way up both sides. Same on parts of Balinacurra Rd. You have to put the Terrace name too.

However I got a letter from abroad in 5 days with just my name & Limerick, Ireland on it. I'm NOT the only person with my surname here either. One is better known writing for Limerick Post. An Post can be impressive.

bk

Postcodes would also be useful for GPS systems.

1huge1

Watty thats unbelievable all they had was limerick

and yes BK i agree thats the 1st thing that popped into my head when i thought of ireland getting postcodes
they'd be great for gps's

Capt'n Midnight

watty wrote:

An Post can be impressive.

I've had letters arrive in the distant past with just my name and Dublin 20 as the address.
But I've moved since

cgarvey

Given the age of the thread, I opted not to move it. Given that there's nothing new to add, I've opted to close it.

A post code will not get you broadband any quicker.