Comments on: The Royal Mail doesn’t know where its post boxes are

By: James

James — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:56:07 +0000

Royal Mail do know where their post boxes are, otherwise they would not get emptied. A postcode is close enough, as a postcode is shared by 15 properties. If you are a stranger to the area, finding a postbox is not a hard thing to do.

By: jen

jen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:28:02 +0000

I agree completely with the Tom. It’s not exactly a hard task to carry out.

By: john

john — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:27:46 +0000

From what I’ve read, the ordnance survey “mastermap” contains the locations of postboxes in its “topography layer”. However who knows how complete it is? (is it based on the locations the surveyors see when they draw the maps or are they also using some data from royal mail?). Or how accurate it is (probably good if a person is drawing it).
Also I wonder if royalmail uses it to find its own postboxes!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:05:22 +0000

Help us locate the postboxes: http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/ – Oxford is already doing well!

By: Francis Irving

Francis Irving — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:25:57 +0000

Meanwhile, Edward Betts has converted the data found by the FOI request into a structured TSV file.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/location_of_every_post_box_that#comment-48

By: Tim Morley

Tim Morley — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:57:29 +0000

Ooh, I feel another crowd-sourcing project coming on! Gentlemen, start your GPSs…

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:29:10 +0000

Ooh – that’s me! It’s a real shame that Royal Mail don’t hold the information, perhaps they should equip their postmen with GPSs and blitz the lot? They visit each one once a day after all…