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; please note I make no representation regarding accuracy of these times.

First half of postcode: (Recent: NN5, ME8, FY4, WN8, LL11, NN7, NN4)

Latest (numbers update hourly)

55,047 postboxes located; 2,630 prefixes started (126 still to go), 1798 at least 25% done, 988 at least 75% done, 649 all done (Status by prefix)

  • NN5 600 – NN5 7RX | Heathfield Way
  • NN5 33 – NN5 5 | Spencer Bridge Road
  • ME8 57 – ME8 8SP | Meresborough
  • FY4 282 – FY4 4RF | Clifton Avenue
  • FY4 46 – FY4 4QT | Clifton Road
  • FY4 45 – FY4 4QT | Clifton Road
  • FY4 257 – FY4 4QA | Tesco Stores Ltd | Clifton Road
  • FY4 213 – FY4 4PY | Cherry Tree Gardens
  • FY4 74 – FY4 4PR | Welcome Inn | 2 Highbank Avenue
  • FY4 175 – FY4 4NY | 7 Cherry Tree Road North
  • FY4 2 – FY4 4JF | Asda | Cherry Tree Road, Marton
  • FY4 47 – FY4 3RF | Amy Johnson Way | Blackpool Business Park
  • FY4 105 – FY4 3PP | 36 Lostock Gardens
  • FY4 230 – FY4 3NU | Highfield School | 275 Highfield Road
  • FY4 280 – FY4 3JP | Molyneux Drive
  • WN8 2751 – WN8 9SA | Gillibrands Road Business Box
  • LL11 329 – | Coed Efa | New Broughton
  • NN7 141 – NN7 2 | Quinton Green
  • NN7 3 – NN7 2 | Quinton
  • NN4 586 – NN4 6DY | Hope Drive

Notes and useful links

  • Export the locations of all located postboxes (including (CC-BY-SA2) or excluding (PD) OSM), 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, 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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