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Belgian newspaper tried something funny a couple of months ago. We have “prior stamp” which is more expensive and the post will be delivered quicker. They put one a letter, and they put a banana sticker (not Chiquita) in another letter. CAT Chonk Vintage Shirt. So, you see ZIP codes in the USA and Post Codes in the UK. They were introduced to streamline deliveries. They came about in the 1960s. A machine would literally read those letters and numbers at the bottom of the address and assign a place for it to go. It was amazing technology when you think about it, a machine from the 1960’s reading human handwriting! C is typical of very old places, usually with previous English influence during the English crown’s rule over Ireland. The name Dublin and Baile Átha Cliath have completely different origins and never merged because the two people groups, Irish speakers and English speakers, never agreed to merge them.

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