Eircode: Postcodes ‘will be standard in 2 years’

The company behind Eircode expects the postcode to be widely used within two years, despite the teething problems that plagued the system on launch day and sustained criticism from courier companies.

Liam Duggan, business development director for Capita Ireland and director of Eircode, said: “The last country to introduce one in the OECD was Serbia and it took them about two years for the uptake to reach the level it expected. We think it will be actually a bit quicker because of modern technology and the use of smartphones.”

Mr Duggan made the comments at the Eircode launch in Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel, where the event was picketed by an Irish language promotion group. Conradh na Gaeilge claims that some 50,000 Irish language placenames have been left off Eircode’s database.