Postcode system predictions

MadsL · 27-09-2013 08:41PM #1

http://www.thejournal.ie/postcodes-introduced-ireland-1098475-Sep2013/

What system do you think will be picked?

OpenPostCode? Loc8? A property tax based one? The An Post proprietary system?

shruikan2553 · 27-09-2013 08:42PM

Something half assed and awkward which won't work most of the time.

Mr Simpson · 27-09-2013 08:44PM

I reckon it'll be something written in the native language of our alien overlords that take over the earth in 3030 (around the time they get around to launching the bloody thing)

Fox_In_Socks · 27-09-2013 08:46PM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Something half assed and awkward which won't work most of the time.

I agree wholeheartedly with you.

-Fox_In_Socks,
The Three Cornered Field,
Up pasht Patsy Ted Michaels,
"Black Pudding Lane"
Tuornafalla,
Co Kilimericky

The Backwards Man · 27-09-2013 08:46PM

The postmen will all be given a code number that you have to add to your address and they will still have to remember where you live.

Mark my words, it will be something this stupid.

MadsL · 27-09-2013 08:47PM

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

I agree wholeheartedly with you.

-Fox_In_Socks,
The Three Cornered Field,
Up pasht Patsy Ted Michaels,
"Black Pudding Lane"
Tuornafalla,
Co Kilimericky

Ah, where Mrs Murphy died. God rest her....

Red Nissan · 27-09-2013 08:47PM

http://www.myloc8ion.com/

This crowd were expecting to made official a few years ago already. I bought my last Sat Nav three years ago because it was Loc8code ready. I do use it and it work's brillo.

Wacker The Attacker · 27-09-2013 08:48PM

Royal Mail

Fox_In_Socks · 27-09-2013 08:53PM

MadsL wrote: »

Ah, where Mrs Murphy died. God rest her....

No, you're thinking of t'other Mrs Murphy, that was over by Pat "The Bush"'s field.

T'was Maureen Rua Ní Mhuruchú-Kowalkski who died in this one. Yerra, sure they didn't have a bit of luck, the lot of them...

kneemos · 27-09-2013 08:54PM

An Post already have perfectly good system but will no doubt be forced to adopt the new system at huge expense.

MadsL · 27-09-2013 08:54PM

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

No, you're thinking of t'other Mrs Murphy, that was over by Pat "The Bush"'s field.

T'was Maureen Rua Ní Kowalkski who died in this one. Yerra, sure they didn't have a bit of luck, the lot of them...

The Mayo Kowalkskis or the Kerry ones?

Red Nissan · 27-09-2013 08:55PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

The postmen will all be given a code number that you have to add to your address and they will still have to remember where you live.

Mark my words, it will be something this stupid.

It may be, but that's not the purpose of a code number. The purpose is one can do away with address entirely, pop the code into a nav machine and go.

On a commercial level like An Post it will sort the most efficient delivery too, however, it is coming at a time when the like of Google is making it redundant, in the areas serviced, one may simply type in the name of a house and Google will find them all, limit your search to ten miles or an area and one can be directed to a single doorway, by name.

Now that's a powerful database and it's [free] and available for 12 months already.

MadsL · 27-09-2013 08:55PM

kneemos wrote: »

An Post already have perfectly good system but will no doubt be forced to adopt the new system at huge expense.

Could they share it with us? Just a thought.

Fox_In_Socks · 27-09-2013 08:58PM

MadsL wrote: »

The Mayo Kowalkskis or the Kerry ones?

Jesus, you have me there! Taedy Fitz's side anyway, but whether or not they came from Mayo or Kerry is another thing..

Scaramanga 4 · 27-09-2013 08:58PM

This is all to pinpoint everyday for the media tax and water charges but of course the paddies will believe whatever bs spin fat rabbitte will say.

MadsL · 27-09-2013 09:00PM

Scaramanga 4 wrote: »

This is all to pinpoint everyday for the media tax and water charges but of course the paddies will believe whatever bs spin fat rabbitte will say.

Yes, Ireland needs to join the ranks of, let's see, the ENTIRE world, in having a postal code system just because of taxation. Of course, it's obvious.

Scaramanga 4 · 27-09-2013 09:02PM

MadsL wrote: »

Yes, Ireland needs to join the ranks of, let's see, the ENTIRE world, in having a postal code system just because of taxation. Of course, it's obvious.

Postcodes are old hat. No need to bother with them in 2013

MadsL · 27-09-2013 09:05PM

Scaramanga 4 wrote: »

Postcodes are old hat. No need to bother with them in 2013

Do couriers just call in and ask for Latitude and Longitude?

Mr Benevolent · 27-09-2013 09:08PM

MadsL wrote: »

Could they share it with us? Just a thought.

Nah. Too easy. This is Ireland.

Mr Simpson · 27-09-2013 09:08PM

Scaramanga 4 wrote: »

Postcodes are old hat. No need to bother with them in 2013

Tell that to the Emergency services trying to find a house in the middle of nowhere at 3am

Scaramanga 4 · 27-09-2013 09:11PM

MadsL wrote: »

Yes, Ireland needs to join the ranks of, let's see, the ENTIRE world, in having a postal code system just because of taxation. Of course, it's obvious.

Pleace explane to me how things will be better to send a letter to Mary Murphy, The field Ballybackwords Longford 90464, Rather than Mary Murphy, The Field Ballybackwords longford. Please give as much detail as possible

kneemos · 27-09-2013 09:13PM

Mr Simpson wrote: »

Tell that to the Emergency services trying to find a house in the middle of nowhere at 3am

Coupled with the callers directions it would be a godsend for the emergency services.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-09-2013 09:15PM

USA uses 5 digits for 303 million people so we only need 2 or 3 digits.

So Dublin City is already sorted.

Banjo String · 27-09-2013 09:16PM

Scaramanga 4 wrote: »

Postcodes are old hat. No need to bother with them in 2013

I spent a few days over in the UK at the start of this month with the family, post codes are a feckin God send tbh.

We had a hire car with a Sat nav, anywhere we wanted to go, Google the place ( example we spent a few days pau ltons park) once you've the address, input the post code, and it is easy drove to.

Addresses over here don't seem to go well with sat navs.

Mick Dunne.
Next door to Mary Rose Bonnes house, with the brown gates with horses.on em.
Ballinagar
Athy
County Kildare.

Red Nissan · 27-09-2013 09:17PM

MadsL wrote: »

Do couriers just call in and ask for Latitude and Longitude?

Sometimes, I've given them my Loc8Code, right to the door, that code is essentially the same thing in a more user friendly form. I was given Lat/Long for a pick, after getting lost on the way, to my iPhone and Google mapped to the junction in the middle of the village and my contact then waved me down.

Today the same system is frightening, it's so much better in two years, Sat Nav is great for finding places but it's not yet there for directions and routing [though] routing is coming on too provided all drops are more or less in a line or the same very general direction, it then sorts them by the order.

Google knows everything, but it's not got routing at all and will route as you enter addresses, but it can find house names ~ now if only every house in Ireland had a unique house name, job done.

hansfrei · 27-09-2013 09:18PM

Got my postcode five years ago. New, New postcodes?

B1GC0CK

27-09-2013 09:18PM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Royal Mail

What's the betting they'll copy the UK post code system so well that there are duplicate codes between the systems and your letter to Limerick ends up in Liverpool!

Capt'n Midnight · 27-09-2013 09:18PM

Mr Simpson wrote: »

Tell that to the Emergency services trying to find a house in the middle of nowhere at 3am

Don't they already get 30m accuracy from mobile phones ?

And let's be blunt unless it's an Air Corps helicopter there isn't much chance of an Ambulance arriving within the golden hour thanks to all the closures and cutbacks.

MadsL · 27-09-2013 09:21PM

Scaramanga 4 wrote: »

Pleace explane to me how things will be better to send a letter to Mary Murphy, The field Ballybackwords Longford 90464, Rather than Mary Murphy, The Field Ballybackwords longford. Please give as much detail as possible

Tell that to the courier services, they are begging for a postal code system. Likewise the emergency services.

Why would it be a bad thing? Please give as much detail as possible.

keith16 · 27-09-2013 09:27PM

MadsL wrote: »

Ah, where Mrs Murphy died. God rest her....

She had an awful dose of the shingles.

Prediction for the postcode system implementation? Utter incompetence and spectacular failure on a national scale that wastes millions of public money in the process.

Honestly, they should be using that money to find a cure for shingles.

Red Nissan · 27-09-2013 09:28PM

Dear Santa, during the upcoming gift giving season, please deliver all goods to WBR-31-Z86 and I call around to collect same when it's full.

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