Location of postboxes in rural and residential areas.
Submitted by: Jenny Ingram
Describe your idea. How does it work and who does it help?
When you're new to an area and don't know where to post your letters in the immediate locality. Helps everyone! My daughter phoned the Post Office when she moved, and even they couldn't tell her where her nearest postbox was.
What information or services do you need?
Maps + street name
Posted by andrea on 06 May 2009 at 02:08 PM
You'd think the post office would want to tell you this information, eh?
I'd like to know where my nearest boxes are that have the pull-doors on the front for larger parcels and packages.
I can't get my business mail in my nearest standard box (within a business park), and the Royal Mail/Post Office aren't interested in replacing it with one more suitable for the local businesses.
Posted by P.Naresh on 12 April 2009 at 07:22 AM
The Post Box has to installed near a Petrol Bunk or inside a Shopping Complex along with that a Automated Cover Machine has to be installed as and when a Person wants to send a post to anybody he can insert a certain denominations of coins so that he can get the cover as per the want,along with that a PUNCHER with sticking property so that everything can be done at a single touch with out wasting time for the customer.
As this is being done because all over the World Postal Services are being operated by Government.
Why so at Petrol Stations or Shopping Complex because these are 9am to 9pm , 12 hours working and these are open through out Year i.e 365 days.
Posted by Amy on 01 December 2008 at 12:45 PM
Thank you Matt. This is a great idea. I have just moved to a new area and needed to find my nearest post box quickly without having to trawl around the steets. The website was just what I was looking for.
Posted by Matthew on 20 October 2008 at 10:32 AM
I've also created a site where people can record post box locations, using the Royal Mail PDF of all postboxes as a list to match against and using OpenStreetMap: http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/ Much of Oxford completely done already :)
Posted by Matt Bryce on 28 July 2008 at 11:17 AM
I've got the solution for you. PostBoxr is a FREE site that let's users search, browse or contribute by adding their known postboxes to a map, powered by Google Maps. The site has been up and running for a almost a month and the feedback and contribution that has been made so far has been amazing. I'm the creator of it and would love to hear your feedback.
Many Thanks
Matt
http://www.postboxr.co.uk