Hi, could anyone tell me if they have postcodes in Dublin, Ireland?

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stitcherkf

We have postcodes in Dublin but they are simply numbers from 1 to 24. Uneven for northside and even for southside/ but no Brennanstown only a Brennanstown Road which would have a postcode. Probably you do not have the next piece of the address correct. It should read Brennanstown, Co. Wicklow (for example).

If it has been delivered back to you there will usually be a reason on the package, check it for something such as DAL (dog at large - I'm not joking!). It may also be that there was no one there to sign for it. It would be unusual for this to happen outside Dublin as the postman usually knows everyone and would put a note through the door to say the parcel was available for collection at the nearest sorting office.
What do you mean by special delivery. That could be the problem. The SDS section deliver at really weird hours (like early in the morning as I know from experience) and would not know people in the locality so would be more inclined not to deliver. Ordinary post might be your best bet.

Trish D

The addressee knows their own address, I presume.

If there is no street name or house number it is probably in a rural location, in which case there are no post codes (they are only in the urban Dublin area and in the format D1, D2, D3 etc., D standing for Dublin).

Rural addresses look like this:
Name of person
Name of townland
Name of closest town
County name

Rural postmen and women know their areas very well as many of them have worked the same route for years and even incorrectly named or addressed parcels will usually get to the intended person.

'Special delivery' probably caused the problem as it would require a signature. If there is no one in when a parcel needing to be signed for is brought round, it goes back to the delivery office for a few days and if the addressee does not respond to a card telling them to come and collect it, it is returned to sender.

dave w

do you have the right County? If it's outside Dublin you need to specify the county. There is a Brennanstown in County Wicklow and there is a Brennanstown Road in Dublin 18.

Orla C

Yes, there are postal codes in Dublin and usually house numbers as well. Did you send DHL? Go with a different crowd next time. I live in the rural west of Ireland where we have no postcodes at all, and often no house numbers either, and I ended up having to go to the DHL office in Limerick to collect something big that had been transported from mainland Europe.

Ray E

You can check the phone book, go to an Irish based search engine, such as yahoo.ie for eg and search for phone book, type in the name and youll get the full address. You are probably missing the post code which will be a number after Dublin between 1 and 23 i think

Quizard

Dublin postal districts are used by Ireland's postal service, known as An Post, to sort mail in the Dublin area. This system will soon change as a national postcode system will be introduced. The system is similar to that used in cities in other European countries until they adopted national postal code systems in the 1960s and '70s. The postal district appears with one or two digits appearing at the end of addresses, e.g.:

Dublin Orthodox Synagogue,
32 Rathfarnham Road,
Terenure,
Dublin 6W
Primarily, odd numbers are used for addresses on the Northside of the River Liffey, while even numbers are on addresses on the Southside. Exceptions to this are the Phoenix Park (along with a small area between the Park and the River Liffey), and Chapelizod Village which, whilst being on the Northside of Dublin, are parts of the Dublin 8 and Dublin 20 postal districts respectively.

Ringsend post office in Dublin 4 with older green Dublin street signs without Dublin Postal District numberIn 1985, Dublin 6 was split, with some areas, such as Templeogue, Kimmage and Terenure becoming part of a new district in order to facilitate processing of mail by a new sorting office for those areas. Residents of some areas objected to the assignation of "Dublin 26" for the new postal district, citing property devaluation (the higher numbered districts typically representing less affluent, and typically less central regions). An Post ultimately relented, and the district became known as Dublin 6W (Confusingly the Eastern half of the old D6 postcode area remained "Dublin 6" rather than "Dublin 6E"). Proposals to extend the system to Blackrock and DĆŗn Laoghaire met with similar objections.

The numbering system is not used for surrounding areas in County Dublin, such as DĆŗn Laoghaire, Blackrock, Lucan or Swords.

In Cork, there are also numbered districts, eg: the 'PATRICK STREET' (SrĆ�id PhĆ�draig) sign will display the digit '1', but these are not encountered in postal addresses. Cork has four postal districts. District 1 covers the city centre and large parts of the surrounding city. District 2, administered from the Ballinlough sorting office covers the south-east, District 3 from Gurranabraher covers the north-west while district 4 from Togher sorting office covers the south-west. In practice these numbers are only used internally by An Post and rarely used on mail.

lynno

you should you check the right address, dublin i send to and its dublin 9 for 4 different addresses.and if its letter post you must take to the post office and have it weighed and airmail stamp put on it,it used to be ordinary post before but its all changed, so try again.

jay

generally irish mail addresses won't require post codes...
however Dublin is an exception..
you can check how to write an Irish address at the link given.. its really useful..
http://www.iol.ie/~discover/mail.htm

Leorey

We have no special codes in Dublin. Just make sure you write the area such as D2, D4 etc... I believe Brennanstown is D18.

aslan

A BIG NO.NO

Crazy-lady

we dont have postcodes in ireland..
did you put enough stamps on it??

Suzi

I used the website www.royalmail.com when I lived in the UK, maybe there is one for Ireland as well.

mermaid

they don't have postcodes. but they have a equivalent of yellow pages - golden pages, don't know if they're online but you could check that. but to be honest the england/ireland mail service is rubbish.

allseeingdi

Northern Ireland does not have postcodes dear, but southern island does.

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