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: IP11, RG5, YO8, S43, ST10, SL5, S41, TS23, BS20)

Latest (numbers update hourly)

34,383 postboxes located; 2,330 prefixes started (426 still to go), 1141 at least 25% done, 515 at least 75% done, 382 all done (Status by prefix)

  • IP11 1313 – IP11 7JU | 29 Foxgrove Ln | Felixstowe
  • RG5 555 – RG5 3 | Quentin Road | Reading
  • YO8 14 – YO8 4ET | 62 Gowthorpe Selby
  • S43 37 – S43 3BW | Norbriggs Road | Mastin Moor
  • S43 215 – S43 2DB | 33 Devonshire Avenue North | New Whittington
  • S43 126 – S43 1HT | New Brimington Post Office | 76 Queen Street
  • ST10 177 – ST10 2HJ | Foxt
  • SL5 19 – SL5 8 | Turners Farm Gainsborough Dri | Ascot
  • ST10 290 – ST10 2LA | Ipstones Post Office | 2 Froghall Road
  • S41 394 – S41 9 | Station Lane | Old Whittington
  • S41 370 – S41 9RF | Foxwood Road
  • S41 315 – S41 9QJ | Broombank Road | Sheepbridge
  • S41 201 – S41 9QJ | Broombank Road
  • S41 10 – S41 9QB | Carrwood Road
  • S41 272 – S41 9PN | Roecar Close | Old Whittington
  • S41 345 – S41 9LQ | Lifestyle Village High St | Old Whittington
  • S41 162 – S41 9EY | Whitting Valley Road | Old Whittington
  • TS23 385 – TS23 2SD | Roseberry Road | Billingham
  • ST10 65 – ST10 2HG | Froghall Station
  • BS20 339 – | North Weston

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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