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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: BL9, PE2, S61, S60, S73, S32, SE13, BR1)

Latest (numbers update hourly)

33,843 postboxes located; 2,313 prefixes started (443 still to go), 1121 at least 25% done, 500 at least 75% done, 359 all done (Status by prefix)

  • BL9 93 – BL9 8JR | Unsworth P O | 73 Parr Lane
  • PE2 275 – PE2 7DD | Oundle Road-Botolph
  • S61 149 – S61 2EQ | 51 Hill Top Lane
  • S61 92 – S61 2DN | Blackburn Post Office | 152 Blackburn Road
  • S61 64 – S61 2RQ | Scholes Village
  • PE2 323 – PE2 5UN | Rangefield-Brimbles Way
  • S60 473 – S60 1RU | Ashley Business Court | Rawmarsh Road
  • S60 289 – S60 1RU | Ashley Business Centre | Rawmarsh Road
  • S60 290 – S60 1RF | Greasborough Street
  • S60 5 – S60 1RF | Greasborough Street
  • S73 128 – S73 9AA | Post Office | 1 Garden Street Darfield
  • PE2 230 – PE2 7DQ | Oundle Road-Toll House Road
  • S32 164 – S32 3ZA | Froggatt Lane
  • S32 201 – S32 3YJ | The Hillock | Curbar
  • S32 564 – S32 3XA | Outside Craft Centre | Calver Bridge Calver
  • S32 207 – S32 1AH | Abney | Hathersage
  • S32 336 – S32 1AG | Cannonfields | Hathersage
  • SE13 1 – SE13 5 | Boone Street
  • BR1 165 – | Gilbert Road (35)
  • BR1 66 – | London Lane (Opp' 8) | Warner 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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