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An Post (Irish pronunciation: [ənˠ ˈpˠɔsˠt̪ˠ]; literally 'The Post') is the state-owned provider of postal services in Ireland.An Post provides a "universal postal service" to all parts of the country as a member of the Universal Postal Union.
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.
The city of Cork had four numbered postal districts, but these were used internally by An Post and rarely on mail. [7] Cork 1 covered the city centre and large parts of the surrounding city, so, for example, the "Patrick Street" (Sráid Phádraig) sign displays the digit '1'.
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.
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.
The office of Minister for Posts and Telegraphs was created by the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, which reorganised the Irish system of government shortly after the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.
The first Irish postal orders was a transitional series overprinted on British postal orders. The Irish inscription ' POST ÓRDÚ ÉIREANN ' ('Irish postal order') was overprinted on the inscription ' BRITISH POSTAL ORDER '.
RTÉ also sells programming to other broadcasting. Some RTÉ services, such as RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ Aertel, RTÉ.ie, and the transmission network operate on an entirely commercial basis. The licence fee does not entirely go to RTÉ. Expenses first deducted include the cost of collection (paid to An Post).