Where is my nearest post box?
OK, so I’m lazy; I want to drop off a load of letters with a minimal amount of effort.
Now, for some bizarre reason, Royal Mail don’t have a Post Box finder on their site. All I can find is this page, which states:
Nothing could be simpler than dropping your mail into one of our Postboxes. There are 115,000 Postboxes nationwide, so wherever you find yourself, there’s one not too far away.
Cute. But why can’t you tell me how “not too far away” one is! You can tell me where my nearest Post Office is, so is it really that much more of a stretch to give me the closest postbox?
I wonder if there’s a social-networking-type website that maps out Post Boxes? I’m envisioning a Google Maps mash up type thing! Hmmm…
Update: Matt Bryce has created PostBoxr to help you find your nearest postbox. See his comment below for more details. I’ve added two post boxes in Cambridge already 
Belinda Rainbow said,
17 March, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I agree! Especially because some post boxes have last mail collected at different times. I’ve been trying to find out where my latest/closest one is for mail I want to send off today.
Tom Le Mes said,
23 May, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Me too! Sort it out Royal Mail, can’t be that hard - share the data!
Matt Bryce said,
30 June, 2008 at 10:55 am
This is question I asked myself and couldn’t believe that RM didn’t offer this feature on their site. I have had a go myself using Google Maps and Mysql. You can search for a postbox within a radius of miles, Browse the whole database and most importantly contribute to the database adding your known postboxes to help other people find their nearest postbox. Any comments or suggestions visit the blog or email contact@postboxr.co.uk
Thanks
Matt
http://www.postboxr.co.uk
Phil Wiffen said,
30 June, 2008 at 11:15 am
Matt, that’s awesome. I was thinking of doing something very similar but knew I wouldn’t have the time to maintain/nurture it! I’m pleased someone’s taken up the task