postcodes

ejhearn

are there postcodes in the Republic of Ireland so that SKY can send a signal when you move house?

Victor

I don't know about Sky but

Very little post here has post codes:

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Dublin Northside 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17
Dublin Southside 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24
Cork Northside 1,3 [not used]
Cork Southside 2,4 [not used]

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Thats well under 800,000 people in a population of 3,800,000 that have post codes and thats 25 post codes for 800,000 people .

However, automatically sorted post (anything that a scanner can read - mostly typed addresses) will have a code printed on it (usually a faint orange colour).

Its not like in the UK where your post code + house number is all you really need. eg, "10 W1 5PW" would deliver to number 10 on 5PW[insert real name] Street in West London.

rymus

Woah, Cork has postcodes? bitchin..

/me takes a reality check

Leesider

Cork has had postcodes put on street signs as far back as 1986, but they still haven't been used 'officially' to this day (city centre is 1, Southside is 2 & 4, and most of the Northside is 3)

Don't ask! Someone's good intentions gone down the tubes.

Victor

I think its a matter of being prepared so as not to have to change all the street signs at the same time when they eventually introduce them as 'compulsory'. They matched the old(?) delivery offices (Brian Boru Street - 1, Ballinlough - 2, ??? - 3, Vicars Road - 4).

ifconfig

Hee-Hee, I see the Corkonians followed the time honoured
tradition of allocating odd numbered codes to the Northsiders
(or Norries as the cork vernacular would specify) and the
even ones to the Southsiders (Pavvies?).
Reminds me of a geeky fellow Dublin northsider in the mid-80s
who told me he lived in the Dublin 2N - 1 region (where N is
a positive integer).

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conZ

i dunno, i live in clare and i always put XXXXXX
was told there a while back by some Technical Assistant i rang up to use this.

Victor

Originally posted by eirin
I see the Corkonians followed the time honoured
tradition of allocating odd numbered codes to the Northsiders

More likely by someone in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in Dublin.

tombenjr

Postcode

Would this work?
Say you fill up th Sky Digtal
to get the Sky Service.
And put your address Co.Cork,Northern Ireland (as a
delibrate mistake).THe person over in england proably won`t
notice And Sky post it and the post office probably try in ROI.
Then that person wll get a Northern Ireland Sky Viewing.
this could work..

Mountjoy Mugger

I remmeber when I got digital a few years ago, the guy in Curry's put in ROI as the Postcode.

I reckon if you try and put in a N.I. postcode and tell them it's part of Cork, it'll totally get lost in the post.

ShaneOC

It might be worth trying this with a FTV card first. If it gets lost it's not really a problem.

There's no swirly mist smilie...

Excerpt from Sunday Business Post 2003

Sky Digital have announced that penetration into the Northern Ireland market is now 350%. There are roughly 250,000 households in the North and 1,750,000 of these have Sky Digital. The Sunday Business Post tried to contact Sky about this but we gave up after 3 days waiting on the phone.