An Post admits ‘very low’ usage of €38m Eircode

An Post has told an Oireachtas committee that Eircode usage remains “very low”, with less than 5% of all mail it handles using the €38m postcode — more than two years after it launched.

The revelation comes as An Post denies an allegation that it misled the Oireachtas committee on Communications about its planned use of Eircode.

Gary Delaney, who unsuccessfully bid for the contract to develop Ireland’s postcode, wrote to Communications Minister Denis Naughten to allege that an official at An Post misled the committee in November 2014, eight months before Eircode’s launch.