Postbox locator to find your nearest postbox

New Features

Matt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:14:12 +0000

I’ve added a couple of new features to the site here is a list below:

The ability to add “Last Posting Times” to new postboxes in a separate field.
Added “Business Postbox” to the type of postbox (This is a postbox that only accepts franked mail).
Added a text area (multiple line input) to “Further Details” and “Last Posting Times” rather than being restricted to a fixed text field.

Postboxes that contain last posting times in the further details field will be amended in due course.

Thanks for all your suggestions to make PostBoxr more useful.

A running total of postboxes

Matt — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:37:59 +0000

I have implemented a running total of postboxes which if you look closely enough you can see it in the top right hand corner of the site. Every time the page is loaded it gets the total number of postboxes from the PostBoxr database. I am also going to be implementing a scrolling banner of the latest postboxes added.

The silver icon symbolises the PostBoxr database, I think this is more exciting and aesthetically pleasing than just having a plain text running total.

What do you think? Any Suggestions?

A list of UK postboxes

Matt — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:14:45 +0000

Please have a look at the link below it’s a PDF of UK postboxes from Royal Mail. It might help you find or add postboxes near you. Unfortunately the postboxes are listed by their postcode and Royal Mail don’t have longitude and latitude coordinates which I need to add to the PostBoxr database. This was made available under the freedom of information act. To be able to open it you need to have a PDF reader on your computer. Any problems leave a comment and i’ll advise you.

PDF of UK Postboxes

The only way is up!!

Matt — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:39:37 +0000

PostBoxr now has 508 postboxes in the PostBoxr database (at the time of this writing). After just two months of going live I didn’t expect that PostBoxr was going to be so well received.

Thanks again to everybody.

Quick update

Matt — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:07:23 +0000

At the time of this writing, there are now 437 postboxes in the PostBoxr database.

New feature to share PostBoxr

Matt — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:56:07 +0000

A very easy to use bookmarking feature has been added to the site. Powered by AddThis.com, you can now share PostBoxr with all your friends at all the main social networking sites. If there is anything that you can suggest, that will spread the word, I’d love to know.

151 Postboxes and still young!

Matt — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:18:48 +0000

There are now at the time of this writing 151 postboxes in the database. Many thanks to everyone who has helped make a little something a little better….

41 postboxes and still counting!

Matt — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:57:14 +0000

At the time of this writing there are 41 postboxes on the PostBoxr database, only another 114,959 to go (according to Royal Mail). Many Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far.

3…2…1…Launch…PostBoxr is Go!

Matt — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:52:26 +0000

The site is now working as I want it to so I’m officially launching PostBoxr. If you have just come across the website spread the word, for PostBoxr to be successful it needs a community.

Final touches before launch!

Matt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:00:09 +0000

I’m just adding the final touches to the site before it is ready for launch. A few more days and it will be ready!