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Locate or find your nearest postboxes

Find your nearest postbox

Search already located postboxes to find your nearest postbox – enter a street name and area, or postcode:

Help locate unlocated postboxes – the Royal Mail supplied a list of every postbox’s location, but unfortunately, it did not have useful co-ordinates, only postcodes or sub-postcodes and some textual data. So I wrote this site: look up the postboxes near you by entering the first half of your postcode below, locate one whose location you know on the map, pick which postbox you’ve located, and submit. The pages also include postbox last collection times, if we know them.

First half of postcode: (Recent: DE1, FK20, DN6, HG2, KY11, BH2, BH5, BH1)

Latest (numbers update hourly)

40,028 postboxes located; 2,413 prefixes started (343 still to go), 1294 at least 25% done, 629 at least 75% done, 424 all done (Status by prefix)

  • DE1 69 – DE1 2RU | Midland Station | Midland Road, Derby
  • FK20 162 – FK20 8QT | Luib Station
  • DN6 112 – DN6 0ES | Selby Road | Askern
  • HG2 253 – HG2 7JR | 53 Knaresborough Road
  • KY11 191 – KY11 9XG | Strathbeg Drive | Dalgerty Bay
  • BH2 39 – BH2 6NQ | 17 Bodorgan Road
  • BH2 99 – BH2 2EW | Montague Road
  • BH5 199 – BH5 2EP | Montague Road
  • BH2 57 – BH2 5LQ | 12 Chine Crescent
  • BH2 22 – BH2 6LZ | Wimborne Road
  • BH2 150 – BH2 6PE | St Valerie Road
  • BH2 13 – BH2 6LE | Durrant Eoad
  • BH2 116 – BH2 6NX | St Augustins
  • BH1 99 – BH1 4RW | Windham Road
  • BH1 59 – BH1 4PW | Curzon Road | Windham Road
  • BH1 82 – BH1 4NL | Grants Ave | 179 Ashley Road
  • BH1 55 – BH1 4EJ | 9 Carysfoot Road
  • BH1 48 – BH1 1RF | 24a Cavendish Road
  • BH1 36 – BH1 4DW | 79 Palmerstone Road
  • BH1 15 – BH1 4RD | Cleveland Road | Spring Road

Notes and useful links

  • Export the locations of all located postboxes, or subscribe to the RSS feed .
  • Thanks to Tom Taylor for making the request (and putting postboxes on iamnear.net using my ‘API’), Edward Betts for parsing it into TSV, Nick Burch for help and suggestions, npemap.org.uk for the partial postcode co-ordinates, OpenStreetMap for maps and postbox/ post office seeding, Abi Broom for requesting the last collection times, and Peter Chamberlin for making a further request .
  • It's possible Internet Explorer might need to be in compatibility mode for the map to function properly – sorry, I don't know why.
  • If you make a mistake in locating a postbox, just let me know.
  • You can add postboxes and their references to OSM – use a key of ref, and this site will hopefully automatically pick them up every week or so.
  • As postbox location is derived solely from the map (the list is simply to help prevent people locating the same postbox twice), and the simple fact of the geographic position of a postbox is not a copyrightable work, I believe the data can be licensed as public domain, and contributed to OpenStreetMap etc., as the location is not being derived from the list (the list is not good enough to do that :) ).

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