I need to post a few letters, and I wasn’t sure exactly where the nearest postbox to my house is, so I asked Google. First of all I was rather surprised that Royal Mail don’t offer a postbox locator service themselves, this seems like a massive oversight on their part as it would be a very useful tool.<\/p>\n
Second to that, I have discovered that the Freedom of Information act is rather neat. Some friendly folk wanted to put together a website where you could search for a postbox yourself, and lo and behold they were able to acquire a complete listing of postbox locations direct from the government on request. Furthermore, that information was made publically available (all be it in a pretty horrible PDF file) here: http:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/request\/location_of_every_post_box_that<\/a><\/p>\n Thankfully someone then took that and converted it into a much nicer format, which can be found and browsed easily here: http:\/\/edwardbetts.com\/postboxes\/<\/a><\/p>\n Since the information is there now, I suspect someone will take the time to make a search by location database available in the near future. The internet is nifty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I need to post a few letters, and I wasn’t sure exactly where the nearest postbox to my house is, so I asked Google. First of all I was rather surprised that Royal Mail don’t offer a postbox locator service … Continue reading