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: CA4, M25, CF31, CF11, RM7, SO31, BN22, GU16, MK6, SY14)

Latest (numbers update hourly)

42,026 postboxes located; 2,448 prefixes started (308 still to go), 1377 at least 25% done, 680 at least 75% done, 462 all done (Status by prefix)

  • CA4 466 – CA4 0NS | Southwaite M6 Services | Southbound
  • M25 456 – M25 3AA | Prestwich P.O. | 2 Kingswood Road
  • M25 308 – M25 | Church Lane | 401 Bury New Road
  • M25 109 – M25 3DJ | 1 Guest Road
  • CF31 256 – | Heol Y Groes | Bridgend
  • CF11 202 – | Lower Cathedral Road | Cardiff
  • CF11 25 – CF11 0JP | Morrison's Store | International Drive
  • RM7 61 – RM7 7DA | Mawney Road Post Office
  • RM7 509 – RM7 9 | The Rotunda
  • SO31 257 – SO31 4 | Aquila Way | Hamble Lane
  • M25 433 – M25 | Whittaker Lane P.O. | 33 Whittaker Lane
  • BN22 836 – | Glynde Avenue | Eastbourne
  • BN22 838 – | Henfield Road | Eastbourne
  • BN22 751 – | Beamsley Road | Eastbourne
  • BN22 837 – | Pulborough Avenue | Eastbourne
  • GU16 110 – GU16 9 | Sandringham Way | Frimley
  • MK6 382 – MK6 2 | Oldbrook Boulevard
  • SY14 701 – SY14 8 | Malpas Post Office
  • SY14 767 – SY14 8 | Mercer Close | Malpas
  • SY14 748 – SY14 8QF | Well Street | Malpas

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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