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Edward Betts

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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 5)

St Pancras official name
Request to Camden Borough Council by Edward Betts. Annotated by John Cross on 5 September 2009.

Successful.

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
Request to Department for Transport by Edward Betts. Annotated by John Cross on 5 September 2009.

Successful.

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
Response 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 expla...
St Pancras official name
Response 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 serv...
Errors in list of postbox locations
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Edward Betts. Annotated by Richard Jackson on 1 September 2008.

Information not held.

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.whatdothey...

This person's 10 annotations

HS2 Euston Costs correspondence
Request to Department for Transport by william perrin. Annotated by Edward Betts on 6 September 2013.

Successful.

This request was linked to as the answer to a written question in the House of Commons. See http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2013-09-02b.16681...
Latest Locations of every post codes
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Ionut. Annotated by Edward Betts on 21 September 2012.

Partially successful.

Is this a request for the location of postcodes or post boxes?
How many Post Offices are there in London SW3 and what are the addresses ?
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Barbara Whittle. Annotated by Edward Betts on 9 June 2011.

Successful.

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
Request to Transport for London by Tom Elders. Annotated by Edward Betts on 12 February 2010.

Successful.

This data is available from OpenStreetMap: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_Underground_Stations
Location of every post box that the Royal Mail Group operates
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Tom Taylor. Annotated by Edward Betts on 17 September 2009.

Successful.

@ 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 k...
Last collection times
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Abi Broom. Annotated by Edward Betts on 24 August 2009.

Successful.

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
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Julian Burgess. Annotated by Edward Betts on 8 October 2008.

Partially successful.

I crawled the post office finder and found 12093 post offices: http://edwardbetts.com/postoffices/ Data dump in JSON format: http://edwardbetts.c...
Location of every post box that the Royal Mail Group operates
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Tom Taylor. Annotated by Edward Betts on 9 September 2008.

Successful.

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 f...
Location of every post box that the Royal Mail Group operates
Request to Royal Mail Group Limited by Tom Taylor. Annotated by Edward Betts on 1 September 2008.

Successful.

I've also converted this into a more usable format: http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/postboxes.tsv Or as HTML: http://edwardbetts.com/postboxes/

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