Post codes !!

[Emeraldlis]

I live in the Republic of Ireland , and a couple of days ago we got issued post codes ...whoo hoo !! I don't know if there are any other Irish lads or lasses on this forum , but they'll understand the excitement caused  ;D

It means now that any deliveries coming to my home , they will at last be able to find me and put my address into a sat nav ....wonders will never cease !!

Of course now I have to learn another set of numbers , as if we don't all have soooooo many codes and passwords in our life already , but "meh" whatever , it's worth the hassle  :D

[undercovergeek]

ahhh rural ireland!!!

next comes fire, and the wheel  :P

[Emeraldlis]

ahhh rural ireland!!!

next comes fire, and the wheel  :P

;D then of course we'll need a training manual to use the said fire and wheel , and as long as that doesn't come in any kind of technology we should all be good !! O0

[Gusington]

How'd they find you before?

[bob48]

Not many months ago, I was doing some work on-line for our depots in Cork and Dublin, so they are using computers, therefore, they must have electricity, or maybe they are steam-driven..... ;)

[Emeraldlis]

How'd they find you before?

Our local postman knows us all by name ....which is astounding in this day and age !

But if we have deliveries not sent through an post , which is our governments postal system , then it gets very annoying trying to give directions .....like , I have a cream coloured house ...every house is cream coloured , arghhhh , two miles up the lane ...where's the lane , arghhh . Then I usually say , bloody hell I'll just meet you !!!! Where are YOU 

[Emeraldlis]

Not many months ago, I was doing some work on-line for our depots in Cork and Dublin, so they are using computers, therefore, they must have electricity, or maybe they are steam-driven..... ;)

Cork and Dublin run on electric , being big city folks ....we however run on peat , or whiskey ...or peat flavoured whiskey , whichever happens to be  the closest and most flammable !! 

[bayonetbrant]

Not many months ago, I was doing some work on-line for our depots in Cork and Dublin, so they are using computers, therefore, they must have electricity, or maybe they are steam-driven..... ;)

I thought they just put all the children in hamster-wheels until they were old enough for school

[Greybriar]

I live in the Republic of Ireland , and a couple of days ago we got issued post codes ...whoo hoo !! I don't know if there are any other Irish lads or lasses on this forum , but they'll understand the excitement caused  ;D

It means now that any deliveries coming to my home , they will at last be able to find me and put my address into a sat nav ....wonders will never cease !!

Of course now I have to learn another set of numbers , as if we don't all have soooooo many codes and passwords in our life already , but "meh" whatever , it's worth the hassle  :D

The next thing you know they will be issuing 911 addresses to all of you living out in the country. Then they will be able to pinpoint your location.

But you're lucky to have gotten by with being hidden for so long. The U.S. has had postal (zip) codes for more than 50 years.

[LongBlade]

ahhh rural ireland!!!

next comes fire, and the wheel  :P

Postal codes imply a written language. This is progress! Who's our resident anthropologist? We need a road trip!!!

[LongBlade]

How'd they find you before?

Our local postman knows us all by name ....which is astounding in this day and age !

That's not far from how things were when I was in Japan 20 years ago. Everyone had an address and a postal code, but the addresses were not sequential. Somehow the postal folks figured out that I was the gaijin living in the neighborhood and I never missed a letter.

[Staggerwing]

ahhh rural ireland!!!

next comes fire, and the wheel  :P

Postal codes imply a written language. This is progress! Who's our resident anthropologist? We need a road trip!!!

The codes will be written in Ogham script. Works especially well on square fence posts.  ;)

[Emeraldlis]

How'd they find you before?

Our local postman knows us all by name ....which is astounding in this day and age !

That's not far from how things were when I was in Japan 20 years ago. Everyone had an address and a postal code, but the addresses were not sequential. Somehow the postal folks figured out that I was the gaijin living in the neighborhood and I never missed a letter.

Outstanding !!  Maybe my postie is secretly Japanese  :o

It's funny even if a letter gets to the wrong address , the person will call round and deliver it to me ...I don't know them ....but they sure as hell know me !! Which freaked me out a bit when I first moved here from the UK , my British reserve did not cope well with friendliness on this scale  ;D

[undercovergeek]

That's not friendliness - they're just checking out what you have to drink

[Emeraldlis]

Not many months ago, I was doing some work on-line for our depots in Cork and Dublin, so they are using computers, therefore, they must have electricity, or maybe they are steam-driven..... ;)

I thought they just put all the children in hamster-wheels until they were old enough for school

Due to inflation hamster wheels got moved to India and China ...now we have a lot of unemployed toddlers AND an energy crisis  :P