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Every few weeks, a story goes viral in Ireland: a letter, addressed to someone like "that lady with the yellow baseball cap who owns a cat the size of a dog and a dog the size of a cat" is posted and finds its intended recipient. It's a tribute to the affection and esteem with which Irish people regard their postal service. It hints at one of a number of reasons why Ireland resisted postcodes for so long - because our postal workers had such deep local knowledge that they didn't need them.\xa0\n\n\nIt's a family affair this week on Motherfocl\xf3ir as we welcome Gear\xf3id\xedn's Dad, Colm McEvoy, to the show. Colm tells us about how postal workers interpret ambiguous addresses, deal with defensive dogs and all the other little tricks that are known to the people who get your post to you. There's also chat about Irish language envelopes, bilingual addresses, rural Post offices and much more.\n\n\nAnd this week's favourite Irish word is a cracker!\xa0\n\n---\n\n\nSupport Motherfocloir on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/darach\xa0\n\n\nGet Kirsten Shiel art prints here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/kirstenshiel/\xa0\n\n\n---\n\n\nContact the show:\n\n\nwhatsapp - +353894784713\n\n\n\ntwitter - @motherfocloir and @theirishfor\n\n\nemail - motherfocloir@headstuff.org\n\n\n\n---\n\n\nWant to record your own podcast?\xa0\n\n\nCheck out our studios at https://thepodcaststudios.ie\n\n\n\nOr do it online at https://remotely.fm/?coddle\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices