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The General Post Office (GPO; Irish: Ard-Oifig an Phoist) is the former headquarters of An Post — the Irish Post Office. It remains its registered office and the principal post office of Dublin [1] — the capital city of Ireland — and is situated in the centre of O'Connell Street, the city's main thoroughfare.
Oliver Cromwell's Postal Act of 1657 created a combined General Post Office for the three kingdoms of Ireland, Scotland, and England; the position was affirmed by Charles II and his parliament by the Post Office Act 1660. [2] As of 2020, An Post remains one of Ireland's largest employers but it has undergone considerable downsizing. In 2020 ...
Dublin postal districts have been used by Ireland's postal service, known as An Post, to sort mail in Dublin.The system is similar to that used in cities in Europe and North America until they adopted national postal code systems in the 1960s and 1970s.
Postcard sent from the United States to a home in Ireland. No addressee name, street address, or town was provided but the card was correctly delivered days later because each Irish address has a unique Eircode. A postal address in Ireland is a place of delivery defined by Irish Standard (IS) EN 14142-1:2011
A map of Ireland's routing key areas. 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 ...
PO boxes in the lobby of a U.S. post office. Post office boxes are usually mounted in a wall of the post office, either an external wall or a wall in a lobby, so that staff on the inside may deposit mail in a box, while a key holder (some older post office boxes use a combination dial instead of a key) in the lobby or on the outside of the building may open their box to retrieve the mail.
Map showing Dublin's General Post Office in the Cope Street area in 1757, the previous location of the Central Bank of Ireland now the Central Plaza (Dublin) Ireland's main post office was centered in the current postal district, Dublin 2, for over 100 years.
Cork General Post Office (GPO) is a historic post office building in Oliver Plunkett Street in Cork, Ireland.Built on the site of an older theatre, it is one of the few An Post offices in Ireland which still retains the General Post Office moniker from the times when the Irish postal service was under the governance of the British General Post Office.