A crowdsourcing effort then pinpointed every postbox in the UK on an openly licensed map. The postbox location idea was put forward by a lady called Jenny Ingram, who was one of the six winners of the competition, so we would like to say thank you Jenny! Without you the postcode finder tool would not be possible!Ī series of Freedom of information requests followed, which revealed both the postcodes of the postboxes as well as their collection times. To try and generate ideas to access and better use this data in 2008 the Cabinet Office launched the “Show Us a Better Way” competition to get the public to submit their ideas so the government could “improve health, education, justice or society at large” using their data. The primary issue was that a lot of the government’s data is held by different departments and spread out amongst various sections of the civil service and public sector bodies. Use our store locator to see if a participating The UPS Store is near you - just look for the Schedule Appointment button. Online scheduling is available at more than 3,900 locations nationwide. In 2007 the Cabinet Office commissioned a report call “The Power of Information” which had the goal of better using the data that the government held to promote both economic and social good. Schedule your mailbox consultation appointment today.
This tool to find your nearest postbox is only possible as Royal Mail was forced to disclose the location of all of its 116,000 postboxes by the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.
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