The Irish Post Office Has a Plan To Tell One Murphy From Another

Re:The Irish Post Office Has a Plan To Tell One Murphy From ... by javaru on Monday September 29, 2014 @04:30PM (#8385103)

I had the same thought, but then what about people who have more than one house? Where would you bring the mail for a homeless person? Do they even get a number? What about mailing to a business vs. a person at that business?

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Re:The Irish Post Office Has a Plan To Tell One Murphy From ... by Someone1234 on Monday September 29, 2014 @04:54PM (#8385239)

Aren't these all issues with the current system also?

I mean if someone has two addresses which one do you deliver to? Right now they manually decide, in this "system" they would just set up their default person routing to either one.

Homeless people would likely get a code, but realistically delivering to them might be difficult with no fixed address. But that is also true today. In both systems they could get a PO Box.

I guess, it won't solve either scenario any better than the current system, but it doesn't make the situation worse either...

As for businesses, there's no reason a business entity couldn't get a code and set the routing however they wished. Just treat them like "individuals."

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Re:The Irish Post Office Has a Plan To Tell One Murphy From ... by ceejayoz on Monday September 29, 2014 @04:39PM (#8385158)

No reason businesses couldn't receive a code when they incorporate, and you'd presumably allow homeless people to set their location as their local post office for pickup (just like they have to do currently, I'd imagine).

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Re:The Irish Post Office Has a Plan To Tell One Murphy From ... by dalke on Monday September 29, 2014 @06:31PM (#8385710)

Many businesses have multiple offices, each of which might receive deliveries.

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Re:The Irish Post Office Has a Plan To Tell One Murphy From ... by ceejayoz on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @10:03AM (#8388168)

Gee, then maybe they could apply for more than one. This is hardly an insurmountable issue.

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Re:The Irish Post Office Has a Plan To Tell One Murphy From ... by dalke on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @11:48AM (#8388866)

The problems with the existing system are not insurmountable either.

This proposal, which isn't going to replace the geographical based system, ends up greatly increasing the number of issues, for seemingly little gain. Each objection, and proposed solution, is an example of why there are issues.

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Re:The Irish Post Office Has a Plan To Tell One Murphy From ... by ghaff on Monday September 29, 2014 @04:39PM (#8385161)

Yeah, I'm not sure how that would work for physical mail. Ultimately physical mail is delivered to a location, not a person. Often it's a clean mapping between the two but also frequently not.

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