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: SN5, S65, DT5, EH9, CW5, SO53, ME12, WD3, LL17, BA2, LL22)

Latest (numbers update hourly)

32,814 postboxes located; 2,291 prefixes started (464 still to go), 1090 at least 25% done, 481 at least 75% done, 340 all done (Status by prefix)

  • SN5 407 – SN5 7JL | Penzance Drive | Swindon
  • S65 144 – S65 2JL | 135 Middle Lane South
  • DT5 114 – DT5 2DL | Avalanche Road
  • EH9 161 – EH9 2 | Strathearn Road
  • EH9 149 – EH9 1 | Warrender Park Crescent
  • CW5 184 – | High Street | W H Smith
  • CW5 192 – | Marsh Lane | Millfields
  • CW5 213 – | Acton | Wilbraham Road
  • CW5 183 – | Millstone So | Crewe Road
  • SO53 355 – SO53 2 | Hursley Road South
  • SO53 137 – SO53 4 | Brickfield Lane | Chandlers Ford
  • SO53 740 – SO53 4 | Brickfield Lane | Chandlers Ford
  • CW5 182 – | The Barony | Arnold Street
  • ME12 14 – ME12 2QD | Richmond Street
  • WD3 26 – WD3 5HS | Rendlesham Way | Chorleywood
  • LL17 49 – | Foxtons
  • BA2 1026 – BA2 7 | University P.O.
  • LL17 37 – LL17 0BN | Nant Yr Patrick
  • LL22 212 – LL22 8PX | Lon Dirion
  • LL22 222 – | Bryn Castell | Abergele

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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