This really deserves a post of it's own. It looks like the Andersonstown News's propaganda rag, the Daily (12 counties of) Ireland will always be able to rely on enough braindead morons existing on this island to keep them afloat.

David N from Ulster Nation left a comment yesterday pointing out that the Daily (12 counties of) Ireland carried a letter from a Mr Pau Kinsella recently attacking the planned introduction of Post Codes to the Irish Republic. Some watchful and consciencious reader had written previously stating that An Post should introduce their new Post Codes "across all 32 counties". My obvious question would be - why? Royal Mail have already done so and I'm sure An Post can use them - I'm bet Royal Mail wouldn't even charge them for the privilege.

Anyway, back to Mr Kinsella's letter...

Follow up:

All was going well, with objections to the introduction of post codes on the grounds that they help businesses send junk mail. I've no idea if this is true, but I'm prepared to take his word for it. This constituted the main thrust of the letter until ...

Finally, because postcodes are associated with England and all things English many nationalists in the six counties refuse point blank to use postcodes.
I know this for a fact because I work for An Post in the GPO in Dublin.

Oh dear - its all gone horribly wrong. I'm trying to ignore the fact that I have never, and I mean ever, considered that a Post Code is "English" or even British (Canada has postal codes and the US has their zip codes - I just assumed all developed countries had something similar). I'm not surprised at the patheticness of it all really, when I think about it. After all this letter comes from the same readership that produced the "Don't address letters to N. Ireland" letter a few months back (the link from slugger to the letter doesn't seem to work any more ).

Basically, the obviously educated Mr Kinsella says "I work for An Post so I know what people are thinking when they're addressing envelopes," completely ignoring the fact that many people throughout the UK address their mail without a post code for the simple reason that they don't know the post code of the address they're sending too. Hardly an act of rebellion.

For some reason I get the impression that when Mr Kinsella says he 'works for An Post' he means he's a postie. I know it's a state company but for the love of God I hope nobody with views that simple could ever reach the upper echelons. Sadly, I can't help but wonder.

Surely it can't be healthy for such a vehement Irish republican to have his identity so clearly and obviously defined by what Britain, sorry 'England', does or doesn't do? Republicans often level the charge at Unionists that they are anti-Irish and that the reason is because they are so similar to the Irish yet determined to prove they're not. With some unionists they may well be right, but the pages of the Daily (12 counties of) Ireland prove that the same applies to the Irish and their often paranoid Britophobia.

Background:
Currently the Republic clings to the townland system which was used in Northern Ireland prior to the naming of roads (and numbering of houses) in rural areas. Urban areas in the Republic already use the road name. There's more on the issues at the Postal Addresses in Ireland and Townland wikipedia articles.