Postcode plan - Codes won’t solve postal service crisis

Given that the Irish postal delivery service is in such radical need of improvement that volumes have decreased in recent years, it is rather perplexing that Communications Minister Noel Dempsey should seek to impose postcodes on it.

Postcode plan - Codes won’t solve postal service crisis

One would be forgiven for suggesting that An Post has more pressing problems to consider than the introduction of a system that is not wanted and will not add one whit to the improvement of the postal service.

The long-suffering customers have not demanded such a code and An Post does not want one because, the company insists, that for the past 10 years it has been operating technology to sort mail that is far more sophisticated.

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