Stand and Deliver
In order to get to the main point of today’s story, I first need to explain something to you: the Irish postal system. Or, rather, the postal code system. Or, to be even more precise, the 2 postal code systems, because it’s Ireland so we have 2 systems for something that every other country has 1 of. There are 2 postal code systems for Ireland: 1 for Dublin and 1 for the whole of Ireland. The Dublin one is set up like this: the city has been cut up in zones, numbered from 1-24. This seems straightforward but there are some strange complications. The basic idea is this: odd numbers are North of the river Liffey, even numbers are South. Dublin 1 is North City Centre, Dublin 2 is South City Centre. Dublin 3, where I live, is just to the East of Dublin1, but I still live in the city centre. When I walk around the corner and to the end of the street, I’m in Dublin 1. Dublin 4 is then to the South of Dublin 2, and so on until you get to Dublin 24, which is far away, near the Dublin mount