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Edward Betts
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This person's 5 Freedom of Information requests
St Pancras official name
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At the time of writing this request is used as a reference for the following Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_1
St Pancras official name
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At the time of writing the following Wikipedia page is referenced to this request:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station
Policy on staff emptying post boxes accepting letters
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by Royal Mail Group Limited to Edward Betts on 22 June 2009.
Successful.
Dear Mr Betts
I am writing in response to your enquiry dated 21 May 2009 regarding
postmen and women accepting mail directly from customers. You expl...
St Pancras official name
Information not held.
by Transport for London to Edward Betts on 10 October 2008.
Information not held.
Ref: TfL 86460
Dear Edward
Thank you for your email received by Transport for London (TfL) on 18
September.
The station at St Pancras which ser...
Errors in list of postbox locations
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Edward Betts. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 1 September 2008.
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Wow. That's quite an incredible response. Follow-up made to find out how/when this "not fit for purpose" database was created:
http://www.whatdothe...
This person's 8 annotations
One of these is missing from the Post Office Branch finder: Royal Hospital Chelsea, Museum & Gift Shop, Royal Hospital Road, London, SW3 4SR.
London Underground Station Locations
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This data is available from OpenStreetMap:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_Underground_Stations
@ Brian Williams:
CT15 96 is the code written on the postbox. The postcode is given as CT15 7, the Royal Mail only has partial postcodes, they don't...
Last collection times
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See http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/postbox_collection_times for a more complete list.
Address and opening times of Post Office branches
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Julian Burgess. Annotated by Edward Betts on 10 October 2008.
Partially successful.
The code is written in Perl. You can get it from http://edwardbetts.com/postoffices/
Address and opening times of Post Office branches
Partially successful.
I crawled the post office finder and found 12093 post offices:
http://edwardbetts.com/postoffices/
Data dump in JSON format:
http://edwardbetts....
See also my follow-up request about errors in the data:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/errors_in_list_of_postbox_locati
Short summary: The...
I've also converted this into a more usable format:
http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/postboxes.tsv
Or as HTML: http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/
