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09/10/2013
Unique Postcodes For All Irish Households
It has been confirmed that seven-character postcodes are to be allocated to every home in Ireland by 2015.
Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte, announced the roll-out of the national system that aims to help emergency, postal, and other service providers to locate households.
A consortium, led by Capita Ireland, has been awarded the tender to develop, implement and operate the new system. Currently, more than 30% of all domestic addresses in Ireland are not unique. With the new system, houses, individual apartments and offices in large developments will each have an individual code – as long as specific post-boxes are provided.
The postcode will be a seven-character code in the format of A65 B2CD, with the first three characters relating to a general area or postal district in which the address is located.
In Dublin, existing postal districts will appear as the first three characters of the new postcode.
Discussing the initiative, Minister Rabbitte said: "Most countries have had the benefit of such systems since the mid 1900's.
"I am very glad to announce that in making the move now we have been able to use the technology and systems available today to move to a next generation system.
"The Irish code will be the first in the world to be unique to each individual address."
The new system will be in operation by spring 2015.
(JP/CD)
Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte, announced the roll-out of the national system that aims to help emergency, postal, and other service providers to locate households.
A consortium, led by Capita Ireland, has been awarded the tender to develop, implement and operate the new system. Currently, more than 30% of all domestic addresses in Ireland are not unique. With the new system, houses, individual apartments and offices in large developments will each have an individual code – as long as specific post-boxes are provided.
The postcode will be a seven-character code in the format of A65 B2CD, with the first three characters relating to a general area or postal district in which the address is located.
In Dublin, existing postal districts will appear as the first three characters of the new postcode.
Discussing the initiative, Minister Rabbitte said: "Most countries have had the benefit of such systems since the mid 1900's.
"I am very glad to announce that in making the move now we have been able to use the technology and systems available today to move to a next generation system.
"The Irish code will be the first in the world to be unique to each individual address."
The new system will be in operation by spring 2015.
(JP/CD)
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