Re:A digital skeleton key to access any website
by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday May 09, 2015 @10:19PM
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I find it really interesting that Eircode gives each building its own code! That's better than the UK's system.
>"The introduction of a National Postcode System, known as "Eircode", is planned to take place in Summer 2015."
>"An Post did not introduce automated sorting machines until the 1990s. By then, the optical character recognition (OCR) systems were advanced enough to read whole addresses, as opposed to just postcodes, thereby allowing An Post to skip a generation. Consequently, mail to addresses in the rest of the state does not require any digits after the address."