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The list of Eircode routing key areas in Ireland is a tabulation of the routing key areas used by An Post and other mail delivery services for the purposes of directing mail within Ireland. A routing key area "defines a principal post town" [1] according to An Post. There are currently 139 routing key areas in the country.
An Post, the Irish postal administration, came into being in 1984 when, under the terms of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983, the Post Office services of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (P&T) were divided between An Post and Telecom Éireann, the telecommunications operator now called Eir.
An Post had used a system of three-digit sort codes, similar to the Mailsort system used by Royal Mail in the United Kingdom, for pre-sorting mail in bulk. [64] There were two levels, Presort 152, which had 152 codes for large volumes of mail, [65] and Presort 61, which had 61 codes for smaller volumes. [66]
Many shipping services, especially air carriers, use dimensional weight for calculating the price, which takes into account both weight and volume of the cargo. For example, bulk coal long-distance rates in America are approximately 1 cent/ton-mile. [2] So a 100 car train, each carrying 100 tons, over a distance of 1000 miles, would cost $100,000.
The postal district system was introduced in 1917 by the British government, as a practical way to organise local postal distribution. [4] This followed the example of other cities, including London, first subdivided into ten districts in 1857, [ 5 ] and Liverpool , the first city in Britain or Ireland to have postcodes, from 1864.
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The postal code refers to the post office at which the receiver's P. O. Box is located. Kiribati: KI: no codes Korea, North: KP: no codes Korea, South: 1 August 2015 KR: NNNNN Previously NNN-NNN (1988~2015), NNN or NNN-NN (1970~1988) Kosovo: XK: NNNNN A separate postal code for Kosovo was introduced by the UNMIK postal administration in 2004 ...
The consistently high costs of air mail curtailed this trend after the war. During the mid-1960s in response to the continuing increase of aircraft capacity, the UPU adopted the policy of maximizing air conveyance of mail and in the mid-1970s the concept of “surface air lifted” mail was developed in conjunction with the International Air ...