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Location of every post box that the Royal Mail Group operates

A Freedom of Information request to Royal Mail Group by Tom Taylor

Royal Mail Group did not have the information requested.

Tom Taylor

14 May 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please could you provide me with, under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, the location of every post box that the Royal Mail Group
operates. Your reply would preferably be in the form of an
electronic database export including a grid reference (such as
Longitude/Latitude or Ordnance Survey).

Yours faithfully,

Tom Taylor

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Tom Taylor

13 June 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

20 days has now passed since my initial request for the location of
every post box that the Royal Mail Group operates, but I have
received no reply. Under the Freedom of Information Act, you should
have replied by now.

Yours sincerely,

Tom Taylor

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Royal Mail Group

13 June 2008


Attachment PO Boxes A-Z.pdf
3.3M Download


Dear Mr Taylor

Thank you for your email received today. A response to your request was
sent yesterday 12 June 2008; I am forwarding a copy of the reply with this
email. It appears as though we had recorded a digit incorrectly in your
email address therefore, you did not receive this response. I apologise for
any inconvenience this may have caused.

Please let me know if you have any problems with this email or opening the
attachment.

Yours sincerely

Colin Young
Freedom of Information Manager
[Royal Mail Group request email]

Royal Mail is a trading name of Royal Mail Group Ltd. Registered in England
and Wales.
Registered number 4138203. Registered office at 148 Old Street, LONDON EC1V
9HQ

---------------------- Forwarded by Colin Young/e/POSTOFFICE on 13/06/2008
11:13:50

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Tom Taylor

17 June 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thanks for your reply. Can you confirm that this is the most
detailed and accurate information that you hold about your
postboxes? I was specifically looking data with grid references or
longitude and latitudes.

Yours sincerely,

Tom Taylor

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Royal Mail Group

19 June 2008

Dear Mr Taylor

I can confirm that this the only listing we hold of every Royal Mail
postbox. We do not hold grid references for the location of boxes.

I am sorry that the information cannot be provided exactly as you have
requested. If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your FOI request
you do have a right to request an internal review, in which case please
write to the Head of Information Compliance, Royal Mail House, Company
Secretary's Office, 5th Floor, 148 Old Street, LONDON, EC1V 9HQ.

If, having requested an internal review by Royal Mail, you are still not
satisfied with our response you also have a right of appeal to the
Information Commissioner at:

Information Commissioner's Office,
Wycliffe House,
Water Lane,
Wilmslow,
Cheshire,
SK9 5AF.
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Colin Young
Freedom of Information Manager
[Royal Mail Group request email]

Royal Mail is a trading name of Royal Mail Group Ltd. Registered in England
and Wales.
Registered number 4138203. Registered office at 148 Old Street, LONDON EC1V
9HQ

Tom Taylor
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17/06/2008 10:02

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thanks for your reply. Can you confirm that this is the most
detailed and accurate information that you hold about your
postboxes? I was specifically looking data with grid references or
longitude and latitudes.

Yours sincerely,

Tom Taylor

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Mike Maughan left an annotation (31 August 2008)

Just FYI I've converted the pdf list to a text file, if that's any help?

Regards, Mike

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Edward Betts left an annotation (1 September 2008)

I've also converted this into a more usable format:

http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/postbox...

Or as HTML: http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/

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Edward Betts left an annotation (9 September 2008)

See also my follow-up request about errors in the data:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/er...

Short summary: The field in the database isn't large enough to store Central London postcodes.

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Abi Broom left an annotation (4 October 2008)

My attempt to get the last collection times for all the postboxes is here: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/la...

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