Irish postcodes should piss or get off the pot!

[NoMalone]

Okay so, this will be lost on those of you who are not subject to the frustrating system that is Irish postcodes. But for those who are: aibu to think they should work flawlessly by now or just be scrapped!

I have just had my third incident of trying to place an online order and where it asked for my eircode (yay! I thought, they're looking for an "eircode" this will glide through...) so i typed in my eircode and no, my (correct) code is invalid. I then tried various versions : with a space, without, replaced it with random letters, switched around the correct digits, just the first three. Nope. They were all invalid. This is Debenhams Irish site, the last two times were British sites so can be forgiven for not getting our less than logical system.

So, I've had to forget about that order as I cannot order without filling in the postcode part. At this stage of the game (its been over three years) they should just work or be scrapped!

Can you not just put in 0000000 for the postcode? Or IE? Isn’t that what everyone does?

Mine works perfectly for international orders, if it doesn't work just do the good old 0000, I used it for years and I don't even have a house number, orders still got to me! (except one memorable one that went to Iceland instead of Ireland!)

It's not the fault of the postcodes, it's the fault of whoever designed the website.

The Eircode systems is brilliant. It acts as a unique identifer and each address has its own individual code unlike other systems which have area based codes. It is really useful for those who live in the 35% of non unique addresses that Ireland have which is far in excess of any other European country. It is completely up to the supplier to update their systems to allow for the inclusion of an Irish Eircode, absolutely nothing to do with the code itself.

Oh you went there Allthewaves Let me tell you the UK system is not fool proof at all mine only works 50% of the time the websites are rubbish not the codes!

YABU, I live in the arse hole of nowhere and every one of my parcels get to me.

Yes, there are UK websites who are not designed for Non-UK postcodes, but they're just dicks and you work around it.

ASOS for example, doesn't recognise non UK postcodes. So you have to put it in the

Aaagh cut off!

....... So you have to out it in the last address line (Co Cork XXX XXX) and then put 0000 in the postcode line.

So dumb for an international site. But it's not the eir codes fault!

Hmm, mysweetaudrina your faith is inspiring....I have recently had a delivery using my Eircode (I live in the back end of nowhere and most deliveries go with the old: past the green gate take a right then look out for the white horse in a field (or the West Anglican parsnips and it's next on the left!) And I was impressed but I get a lot of deliveries and this was the first that was confident that the eircode would be enough. Maybe it's a slow starter.

I'm going back to Debenhams with 00000 now

Do you mean that the days when you could address something like THIS

www.dailyedge.ie/an-post-letter-galway-3143597-Dec2016/

and it would totally get there, are gone?

😢 bad times

The problem is the websites, not the postcode system, which has made identifying an address much easier within Ireland in my experience.

Allthewaves What a goady thing to say. Would you make that suggestion about any other independent nation with a painful history of invasion and oppression by Britain?

And those infallible and perfect British postcodes. Mine in the south of England encompasses so many properties that it's no use nor ornament in finding my house. Yes, it works on websites, but then lots of delivery companies can't find my actual home.

Ah, Eircodes... I used mine a couple of times and the blasted things I was ordering never arrived, so I've gone back to using 0000.

An Post don't seem to use them at all - we regularly get post, correctly addressed to a neighbour, with their Eircode - the only thing that's the same is the house number. It baffles me why the postie thinks that, after 10 years, we suddenly have a randomer living in our house who only ever receives one piece of post per month...

Neither use nor ornament. . Ah Somerville I haven't heard that since my before my Granny went doolally. Was usually used in relation to her unfortunate offspring. One or other of which was always in the bad books.

I didn't realise anyone except my Dad was using eircodes still! My mother took umbridge as the eircode appears to identify her as being in the wrong Dublin suburb....

Allthewaves What a goady thing to say.

I read it as a joke. The smiley face gave it away.

A poster making a joke doesn't normally feel the need to don a hard hat Soup?

I use ours a lot. We live in the countryside so it helps find our specific house. We'd also give it to tradesmen so they can find our house.

A poster making a joke doesn't normally feel the need to don a hard hat Soup?

And a poster being goady doesn't normally feel the need to add a grinning face.

Loads of goady posters add a grin. Either to goad more, or to try to pass their comment off as a joke.

Debenhams website is SHIT though so it's probably their fault.

Agree on the British postcode I'm in a relatively new build, however I have been here 5 years and it still doesn't come up on most websites

Loads of goady posters add a grin.

Clearly you're desperate to see it negatively so I'll leave you to it.

:raises hand: I saw it as goady too.

Also saw it as goady

Soup As you can see, I’m not the only one who found the comment goady in this context.

And feel free to report this post and have MN check that I’m not socking and didn’t go dog whistling on another thread or in PMs to gather support.