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In Ireland, 35% of premises (over 600,000) have non-unique addresses due to an absence of house numbers or names. [2] Before the introduction of a national postcode system (Eircode) in 2015, this required postal workers to remember which family names corresponded to which house in smaller towns, and many townlands.
The postal district system was introduced in 1917 by the British government, as a practical way to organise local postal distribution. [4] This followed the example of other cities, including London, first subdivided into ten districts in 1857, [ 5 ] and Liverpool , the first city in Britain or Ireland to have postcodes, from 1864.
Ireland's postcode system (called Eircode) refers to individual properties – not to streets/areas. It is presented in the format A12 A1BC The first 3 characters are a routing key referring to a postal district, and the second 4 characters are a unique, pseudorandom identifier for individual properties.
BT postcode area. / 54.603; -5.923. The BT postcode area, also known as the Belfast postcode area, [ 2] covers all of Northern Ireland and was the last part of the United Kingdom to be coded, between 1970 and 1974. [citation needed] This area is a group of 82 postcode districts in Northern Ireland, within 44 post towns and around 47,227 live ...
The single or pair of letters chosen for postcode areas are generally intended as a mnemonic for the places served. [1] Postcode areas, post towns and postcode districts do not follow political or local authority administrative boundaries and usually serve much larger areas than the place names with which they are associated.
General Post Office, Dublin. / 53.349334; -6.261075. The General Post Office ( GPO; Irish: Ard-Oifig an Phoist) is the former headquarters of An Post — the Irish Post Office. It remains its registered office and the principal post office of Dublin [ 1] — the capital city of Ireland — and is situated in the centre of O'Connell Street, the ...
Dublin 2. Dublin 2, also rendered as D2 [1] [2] and D02, is a historic postal district on the southside of Dublin, Ireland. In the 1960s, this central district became a focus for office development. [3] More recently, it became a focus for urban residential development. [4] The district saw some of the heaviest fighting during Ireland's Easter ...
D. Dublin 1. Dublin 2. Dublin 4. Dublin 8. Dublin 15. Categories: Sub-divisions of County Dublin. Republic of Ireland postal system.