Scrap Eircode

Eircode is dead handy what are you on about?

Is the tender not just to manage it with ownership remaining with the state? Capita had the original contract to create it I believe.

Eircodes make it so much easier to find things in the middle of nowhere, no more "go down there until you find a broken tree, take the second left after that and then over the humpy bridge and its the 25th house on your left"

I was initially against them, now I'm all for them. An Post knows where my house is, it's the delivery drivers that need the eircode

It's a fantastic system, emergency services, delivery drivers, tradesmen etc all use them hassle-free, even in rural areas. Why on earth would it be scrapped?

My Eircode has the correct house number, street name, estate name, but wrong town, correct county - very frustrating

Eircode is f**ing amazing

Eircode is literally the only thing they got right and you want to scrap it.

I've sent a letter to myself as an experiment before, using nothing but my name and eircode and they delivered it to my house. Literally just name and eircode, nothing else, and it arrived next day.

Eircode is okay, but could have been a lot better. I had some interesting "discussions" with the designers of it on this site several years ago.

Scrapping it makes zero sense, but the best thing they could do at this stage is open it up as a public good and maybe only charge for the address file. The big commercial users would continue to need that, and will pay for it.

The random nature of the last 4 characters is a problem. 

In our case on one side of us there's a house that's not in the estate and to access you need to drive about 1km away down a different road. We get couriers trying to find them, and they get couriers trying to find us.

In a normal post code system it'd be obvious our code means we're in our estate, or on our street or whatever. For us it's possibly safer to not include the eircode and eliminate that confusion (as luckily our address is enough.)

For the likes of researchers into cancer incidence across the country that random nature of the codes is also unhelpful - they'd like finer resolution than the non-random part can provide. The post code system was why local Covid rates were released on the basis of voting areas - again the post code system couldn't provide the resolution needed.

Eircode goes directly to my place in my estate however only use by address and its a crap shoot depending as my estate is called 1 thing on Google maps another on my father's GPS etc. So works great. Was going to a wedding up in sligo last march. Put in address and then eircide of place was a few hundred meter difference. Eircode was closest. Hated them when for the logest time now live them. Some delivery aps do not use them unless you expressly say use them

When they first handle an envelope/parcel, they use it, presumably for the first 3 digits. But it's not a requirement for an Post delivery drivers to use it, and most of them don't.

Wrongly or rightly, that's an Post's stance on this issue. I don't really care as long as my post is delivered!

You're that Loc8 Looney, aren't you???

Man have you ever got a chip on your shoulder about not getting that contract.

Here's the deal, Eircode is well established, it's in use by many many delivery companies, supply companies, product companies & individuals on a daily basis. Apple, Google & Microsoft, Tomtom & Even Garmin have all integrated it in their mapping software. They're not going to scrap it & go with another system as that would be both futile & confusing at the same time.

I tried Loc8 & while I will concede, it had it's benefits in that you could generate a code, it was so clumsy & ham fisted it wasn't worth using.

Even three little words which uses the same generate your own code principle but isn't integrated into anything but their own mapping is a more elegant solution than Loc8 was & that has international appeal & usage (have even seen it in some US TV show during 2021).