Eurobilltracker-site Feedback.

[Montgomery Burns]

I believe the link present in the second bullet-point on this page should be updated to this: https://www.upu.int/en/Universal-Postal ... -Countries

[avij]

There's a little bit of confusion here.. Let me get this straight.

I believe the link present in the second bullet-point on this page should be updated to this: https://www.upu.int/en/Universal-Postal ... -Countries

Your "this page" goes to FAQ/Tracking page. The entire second bullet point on that page says:

I would like to enter a bill, but I only have got the name of a city. Where can I find the postal code?
Each country has its own postal code system. A complete summary and further help can be found in our links section.

The link on that page initially pointed to http://www.eurobilltracker.com/links/ and merely changing that link to that upu.int page without changing the other text would not have made sense. That was done anyway, but I partially reverted that change and made it point to https://en.eurobilltracker.com/links/?tab=2 (or whatever language subdomain is in use). This also meant the protocol remained https instead of http and the correct tab for "Finding postal codes" gets activated.

On that links page there was a slightly outdated link to UPU which I replaced with the suggested URL. There was also another link in the General/Worldwide section which was dead, which I removed.

As for the other links on that page I changed http to https (as no sane site runs plain HTTP nowadays). Many of the country-specific links are either outdated or entirely dead, but I didn't have time to find replacements for the dead links. I did fix the Finnish one, though. Suggestions for changes or removals for the country-specific links are welcome.

Edit: Later on I found out that only the Portuguese and Catalan versions of that text snippet contained a direct (outdated) link to upu.int while the other languages pointed to the Links section. This may have contributed to the confusion.

[Montgomery Burns]

Edit: Later on I found out that only the Portuguese and Catalan versions of that text snippet contained a direct (outdated) link to upu.int while the other languages pointed to the Links section. This may have contributed to the confusion.

Well, that explains it yes, on the page in Portuguese, there was an outdated direct link to UPU's postcode tool list there.

It's unfortunate you had all that work due to this difference. But, on the plus side, it led to a handful of minor corrections.

[Montgomery Burns]

Many of the country-specific links are either outdated or entirely dead, but I didn't have time to find replacements for the dead links.

Suggestions for changes or removals for the country-specific links are welcome.

I had a little bit of time on my hands and decided to test every link there, as well as the links provided by the UPU site for those specific countries:

Austria

Post.at - outdated
Postleitzahl.org - working
UPU link: https://www.post.at/g/c/postlexikon


Belgium

bpost - outdated
Postcode.be - outdated
UPU link: https://www.bpost.be/fr/outil-de-valida ... es-postaux


Cyprus

Cyprus Postal Service - outdated
UPU link: https://www.cypruspost.post/en/find-postal-codes


France

La Poste - outdated
UPU link: https://www.laposte.fr/outils/trouver-un-code-postal


Germany

Deutsche Post - outdated
Postleitzahl.org - working
UPU link: outdated


Greece

Hellenic Post - outdated
Postal.gr - outdated
Grecian.net - outdated
UPU link: https://postalcodes.elta.gr/en/


Ireland

Dublin Tourist Information - outdated
EBT forum thread - working
UPU link: https://www.anpost.com/Post-Parcels/Sen ... ct-Address


Italy

Poste Italiane - outdated
Nonsolocap.it - working
UPU link: outdated


Luxembourg

P&TLuxembourg - outdated
UPU link: https://www.post.lu/en/particuliers/col ... al#/search


Malta

Malta Post - outdated
UPU link: https://www.maltapost.com/postcode/


Netherlands

TNT Post - outdated
Postcode.nl - working
Zoekplaats.nl - working
UPU link: outdated; redirects to https://www.postnl.nl/


Portugal

CTT.pt - outdated; redirects to https://www.ctt.pt/feapl_2/app/open/pos ... x?lang=def (this is the UPU link)


Slovakia

Slovenská Pošta a. s. - outdated; redirects to https://www.posta.sk/psc (this is the UPU link)
(English) - outdated; redirects to https://www.posta.sk/en/postcode


Slovenia

Posta.si - outdated; redirects to https://www.posta.si/zasebno
UPU link: https://www.posta.si/iskalnik-poslovalnic


Spain

Correos.es - outdated; redirects to https://www.correos.es/es/es/herramient ... es/detalle (this is the UPU link)

[Montgomery Burns]

Just going a little bit farther here...


Members of the Euro Area currently not present on the links page:

Bulgaria

UPU link: https://www.bgpost.bg/?cid=131


Croatia

UPU link: outdated; redirects to https://www.posta.hr/


Estonia

UPU link: outdated; redirects to https://www.omniva.ee/kirjade-jalgimine ... tesaamine/


Latvia

UPU link: outdated


Lithuania

UPU link: https://www.post.lt/pasto-kodu-ir-adresu-paieska


Members of the Euro Area under monetary agreement currently not present on the links page:

Andorra
UPU link: N/A (not a member state)


Monaco (integrated into the French postcode system)
UPU link (France): https://www.laposte.fr/outils/trouver-un-code-postal


San Marino (integrated into the Italian postcode system)
Vatican City (integrated into the Italian postcode system)
UPU link (Italy): outdated


Unilateral adopters of the euro currently not present on the links page:

Kosovo
UPU link: N/A (not a member state)


Montenegro
UPU link: https://postacg.me/centar-za-korisnike/ ... oslovnica/

[MDeen]

TNT Post - outdated

TNT Post does not exist anymore, that link should be removed. The other two are sufficient. Especially postcode.nl is authorative.

[lmviterbo]

These internal URLs are often outdated. I believe that it would be in fact better to point to the UPU page: they update the links more often than us.

[Montgomery Burns]

The link to the UPU list is present here (and even they have work to do, judging by those 20-odd countries that I had to check - either that or there are plenty of member states that fail to report changes in their URL's in a timely fashion).

Something I'd like to mention is Wikipedia can be of great help - either to be used as a link itself, or as a source of possible links. For example:

• the entry on Andorran postcodes, in the absence of an authoritative source, would be a decent link for the links page

• the entry about Kosovo postcodes led to me to an authoritative source

[JordiJanTaxi]

I understand that some tools can be useful, or maybe, they "were" useful a few years (or even QUITE a few years) ago. Today, in order to obtain a postcode, it is enough to write the address on GoogleMaps, or open GoogleMaps and point the place of interest, or use the EBT.art self-location.

[lmviterbo]

Today, in order to obtain a postcode, it is enough to write the address on GoogleMaps, or open GoogleMaps and point the place of interest, […]

I wish that was always true in Portugal.

[…] or use the EBT.art self-location.

I wish that was working in Portugal…

[JordiJanTaxi]

Today, in order to obtain a postcode, it is enough to write the address on GoogleMaps, or open GoogleMaps and point the place of interest, […]

I wish that was always true in Portugal.

[…] or use the EBT.art self-location.

I wish that was working in Portugal…