Postcode system will waste taxpayers’ money

In the Irish Examiner, October 13, you quote Alex White Communications Minister: “a sequential postcode structure is not feasible or necessary”.

The freight industry and emergency services as well as small business and tourism sectors appear to differ with the minister and believe a sequential logical code is necessary.

The solution as proposed by the minister and civil servants in the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (DCENR) is based on an expensive database rather than a simple computer algorithm.

What vested interests does a database-driven postcode satisfy? Junk mailers perhaps? Also who has a beneficial interest in the postcode becoming a shambles? An Post and the Communication Workers Union perhaps?

With regards to feasibility, three rival codes are already in existence with one Cork-based Loc8 code already having a quarter of a million users and GPS device manufacturer support.

Surely something proven off the peg will suit Ireland as a postcode system as a cheap alternative to spending €27 million or is spending €27 million the sole point of the exercise?

Gavin Tobin

The View

Saint Wolstan’s Abbey

Celbridge

Cork