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: HG5, B5, LN13, G2, IV10, CA18, PH41, IV16, PA26, NG22)

Latest (numbers update hourly)

51,462 postboxes located; 2,601 prefixes started (155 still to go), 1718 at least 25% done, 893 at least 75% done, 608 all done (Status by prefix)

  • HG5 32 – HG5 8HB | Farfield Ave/Rievaux Ave
  • B5 20 – B5 7AA | Bristol St Post Office | 24 Bristol St
  • LN13 855 – LN13 9RA | Huttoft | Alford
  • G2 1508 – G2 1EG | 7 George Square
  • IV10 175 – | West End | Fortrose
  • CA18 35 – CA18 1 | Muncaster | Ravenglass
  • PH41 1 – PH41 4PU | Mallaig Post Office
  • IV16 39 – | Drummond Road
  • PA26 5 – PA26 8BN | Old Post Office | Cairndow
  • NG22 199 – NG22 8NE | Hockerton Moor | Kirklington
  • NG22 172 – NG22 8QR | Old Village Bilsthorpe
  • NG22 209 – NG22 8 | Valley Road | Bilsthorpe
  • NG22 64 – NG22 8QR | Bilsthorpe Post Office
  • NG22 136 – NG22 9 | Boughton
  • NG22 208 – NG22 9 | Dovecroft Estate | Ollerton
  • NG22 214 – NG22 9 | Cedar Lane | New Ollerton
  • NG22 197 – NG22 9 | Church Corner | Walesby
  • NG22 54 – NG22 9 | Forest Road | New Ollerton
  • NG22 213 – NG22 9 | Petersmith Drive | Ollerton
  • NG22 196 – NG22 9 | Walesby Lane | New Ollerton

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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