Londonderry - UK or Ireland?

Avoriaz

pinkgem wrote:

Paypal payment email says address is Londonderry...

Pinkgem, I was teasing you.

Officially it is Londonderry and is part of the UK. In 1613, during the Plantation of Ulster, the name was changed from Derry to Londonderry. Irish Republicans to this day refuse to accept the prefix London and will only call it Derry.

Your buyer presumably has Irish nationalist or republican leanings.

Go raibh Mille Mait Agat.:D

motorguy

Funny how the buyer seems to have strong enough beliefs to register himself in ebay as living in the Republic of Ireland (which he doesnt), but is happy to say he lives in the uk to get cheap postage!!

Sums up the hypocrisy that exists here in Northern Ireland. If the buyer listed himself as living in northern ireland in Ebay then he wont have these problems.

The buyer made a conscious decision in ebay not to list his home address as part of the uk, its not the default.

motorguy

John_T wrote:

If the buyer wants to live in Eire then so be it, send it to Eire at the appropriate postal rate, tell them they will have to pay the increased amount, it may get there late due to the confusion over the address but that is there problem, I never contest the details of a buyers registered PayPal address that is there responsibility to ensure they provide the correct details any loss incurred as a result is there problem.

Yup, thats a reasonable conclusion to draw.

motorguy

Hoddie wrote:

Many people dispute whether London(derry) should be in Northern Ireland. A lot of the residents consider the town part of the Republic of Ireland, but it is in fact part of the UK. Normal postal rates will apply.

Thats not the actual dispute - some people dispute whether northern ireland should be part of ireland or part of the uk, there has been no movement to declare the City of Londonderry in itself part of ireland.

martindow

The buyer may well be making a political point but surely he is not wrong to say he is in Ireland as this is the name of the entire island? Northern Ireland is in the north of Ireland and The Republic of Ireland is in the south.

lowdenclear

pgilc1 wrote:

Sums up the hypocrisy that exists here in Northern Ireland. If the buyer listed himself as living in northern ireland in Ebay then he wont have these problems.

Well, if Northern Ireland was actually an OPTION to select in Paypal/eBay, then it wouldn't be a problem. But 99% of the time it isn't an option to select it, so you have to choose either Ireland or UK, and frankly I don't like choosing either.

As far as postage goes, it's UK rates. As far as putting down Ireland/UK goes, it could be as simple as not actually having the Northern Ireland option to choose and having to pick one or the other. So lets just leave the speculation out of it before someone gets offended...

pinkgem

I am trying to print out the postage for this item but firstly it won't find the address from the house number and postcode which it normally does.

So I input the address manually and now keep getting this message

"The post code you have entered is invalid. Please enter a valid postcode.
Postcode: BT49 0GB"

Can anyone advise? Thanks

pinkgem

I have realised what the problem was now. I usually cut and paste address details from paypal payment emails. The buyer had entered part of his postcode as a letter O instead of the number 0.

martin57

I live in derry/londonderry. As far as I know no bt49 here, should be either bt48 or bt47 areas

pinkgem

Royal Mail website actually said it was Limavady, United Kingdom but the buyer put that is was Londonderry, Ireland.

So I put Limavady, Londonderry, United Kingdom just to make sure.