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6</head><body class="__variable_f367f3 font-sans antialiased flex flex-col min-h-screen google-anno-skip"><a href="#main-content" class="sr-only focus:fixed focus:left-4 focus:top-4 focus:z-[100] focus:!m-0 focus:!block focus:!w-auto focus:!h-auto focus:!p-4 focus:overflow-visible focus:!whitespace-normal focus:bg-primary focus:text-white focus:rounded-lg focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-offset-2">Skip to main content</a><!--$--><!--$--><!--/$--><!--/$--><header class="sticky top-0 z-[1100] w-full border-b border-gray-200 dark:border-gray-800 bg-white/95 dark:bg-gray-900/95 backdrop-blur supports-[backdrop-filter]:bg-white/80 dark:supports-[backdrop-filter]:bg-gray-900/80 nav-safe-top"><div class="mx-auto max-w-7xl px-4 sm:px-6 lg:px-8"><div class="flex h-16 items-center justify-between gap-4"><a class="flex shrink-0 items-center gap-2 font-bold text-gray-900 dark:text-white hover:text-primary dark:hover:text-primary-light transition-colors min-h-[44px]" href="/"><span class="text-xl tracking-tight">PostboxMap</span><span class="hidden sm:inline text-sm font-normal text-gray-500 dark:text-gray-400">.co.uk</span></a><nav class="hidden md:flex items-center gap-1" aria-label="Main"><a class="px-3 py-2 rounded-md text-sm font-medium text-gray-600 hover:text-primary hover:bg-gray-100/50 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2" href="/map">Map</a><a class="px-3 py-2 rounded-md text-sm font-medium text-gray-600 hover:text-primary hover:bg-gray-100/50 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2" href="/postboxes">Browse postboxes</a><a class="px-3 py-2 rounded-md text-sm font-medium text-gray-600 hover:text-primary hover:bg-gray-100/50 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2" href="/discussions">Discussions</a><a class="px-3 py-2 rounded-md text-sm font-medium text-gray-600 hover:text-primary hover:bg-gray-100/50 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2" href="/add">Add Missing Postbox</a><a class="px-3 py-2 rounded-md text-sm font-medium text-gray-600 hover:text-primary hover:bg-gray-100/50 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2" href="/identification-guide">How To Identify</a></nav><div class="hidden md:flex items-center gap-2 ml-2 min-w-[11rem] justify-end shrink-0"><div class="flex items-center gap-2" aria-hidden="true"><div class="h-9 w-[5.5rem] rounded-md bg-gray-100 dark:bg-gray-800"></div><div class="h-9 w-16 rounded-md bg-gray-100 dark:bg-gray-800"></div></div></div><button type="button" class="md:hidden tap-target min-h-[44px] min-w-[44px] -mr-2 flex items-center justify-center rounded-lg text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-300 hover:bg-gray-100 dark:hover:bg-gray-800 hover:text-gray-900 dark:hover:text-white" aria-label="Open menu" aria-expanded="false"><svg class="w-6 h-6" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true"><path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" d="M4 6h16M4 12h16M4 18h16"></path></svg></button></div></div></header><div id="main-content" tabindex="-1" class="flex min-w-0 flex-1 flex-col overflow-x-hidden outline-none"><main class="min-h-screen bg-gray-50/50 dark:bg-gray-900/30"><div class="container mx-auto px-4 py-10 sm:py-14 max-w-3xl"><header class="mb-10 sm:mb-12"><h1 class="text-3xl sm:text-4xl font-bold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-2">About PostboxMap.co.uk</h1><p class="text-lg text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-400">A map of UK postboxes for spotters, historians and anyone who enjoys finding them.</p></header><div class="prose prose-lg max-w-none dark:prose-invert prose-p:text-gray-700 dark:prose-p:text-gray-300 prose-headings:scroll-mt-24"><section class="mb-12 first:mt-0"><h2 class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-5 scroll-mt-24">About the project</h2><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">PostboxMap is a map of UK postboxes built for people who enjoy discovering and documenting them. It helps postbox spotters, historians and enthusiasts record the location, type and royal cypher of postboxes across the country.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">I started PostboxMap in 2023. The first version was simple and fun, but it did not last. My hosting provider moved servers and we lost data. That was the push I needed to rebuild it properly and protect the data long term.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">I also wanted more than a map. I wanted a place where people could contribute, share photos, and document postboxes together. The current version is that rebuild: PostboxMap v2.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">This project aims to create a structured, searchable dataset of UK postboxes that anyone can explore and contribute to.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed text-gray-700 dark:text-gray-300">PostboxMap currently contains <!-- -->15,185<!-- --> mapped postboxes and <!-- -->14,126<!-- --> photographs submitted by the community.</p></section>
6<aside class="flex flex-col items-center my-10 py-6 px-4 rounded-xl bg-white dark:bg-gray-800/60 border border-gray-200 dark:border-gray-700 shadow-sm" aria-label="Advertisement"><div class="google-ad-slot-wrapper " aria-hidden="true"><div class="google-ad-slot google-ad-slot--mobile-fixed" style="width:100%;max-width:320px;height:100px;min-height:100px;max-height:100px;margin:0 auto"></div></div></aside><section class="mb-12 overflow-hidden"><h2 class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-5 scroll-mt-24">Why I started it</h2><div class="float-right ml-6 mb-5 w-44 sm:w-52 shrink-0"><img alt="Luke, creator of PostboxMap" loading="lazy" width="208" height="208" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="rounded-xl object-cover aspect-square shadow-md" style="color:transparent" src="/PXL_20260314_124003609~2.jpg"/></div><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">I&#x27;m Luke, the creator of PostboxMap.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">After Queen Elizabeth II died, I started paying more attention to postboxes. I wondered how new ones with the King Charles cypher would appear and how the network would change over time.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">While thinking about that I started noticing older postboxes everywhere. Victorian boxes, Edwardian boxes, George V boxes. Each one carries the royal cypher of the monarch who reigned when it was installed, which makes postboxes a visible timeline of British history.</p><p class="mb-4 font-medium text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-200">That curiosity stuck.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">I wanted a way to document the postboxes I found, see where others were located, and keep a record of them.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">But when I looked for a tool to do this, I couldn&#x27;t find one.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">There were blog posts, private lists, and scattered records, but nothing designed to be used easily while walking around in the field.</p><p class="mb-4 font-medium text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-200">So I built PostboxMap.</p></section><section class="mb-12"><h2 class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-5 scroll-mt-24">Why this project matters</h2><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">A lot of postbox information is still quite fragmented.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">It sits in private records, newsletters, or spreadsheets held by individuals. There has never really been a large public dataset with structured records and photographs in one place.</p><p class="mb-4 font-medium text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-200">PostboxMap aims to change that.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">The site allows people to map postboxes, upload photos, confirm cyphers and document the condition of boxes across the UK. Over time this creates a growing public record of the British postbox network.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">PostboxMap is a <strong>citizen science</strong> project in the heritage sense: people observe and photograph postboxes in the field, record what is publicly visible, and together build a structured dataset. Submissions, corrections, and photos are <strong>crowdsourced</strong> from the community, with moderation and tools like Sorting Office to keep the map accurate.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Postboxes themselves have been part of everyday life since the 1850s, when roadside pillar boxes were first introduced in the Channel Islands and then across mainland Britain.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Today there are still more than 100,000 postboxes across the UK, many of them historic.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Despite that long history, there has never been a single public map of UK postboxes that is easy to use, includes photographs, and records key details such as the royal cypher, postbox type and location.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">PostboxMap aims to create a searchable public dataset of postboxes that anyone can explore and contribute to.</p><p class="mb-4 font-medium text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-200">That is the gap this project is trying to fill.</p></section><section class="mb-12"><h2 class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-5 scroll-mt-24">Public observations and classification</h2><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Postboxes are public street furniture. Their physical characteristics, such as the royal cypher, shape, aperture type and construction style, are visible to anyone standing in front of them.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">PostboxMap records these publicly observable features based on photographs and field observations submitted by users.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Factual information about publicly visible objects, such as the existence of a particular design or type of postbox, cannot itself be restricted. However, publications, research papers and internal datasets produced by organisations remain their intellectual property.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">For that reason PostboxMap does not reproduce any private datasets or internal records belonging to other organisations. Instead, it documents observations made independently in the field by contributors to the site.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">PostboxMap therefore documents postboxes in the same way enthusiasts and researchers have always done: by observing, photographing and recording what is publicly visible.</p></section><section class="mb-12"><h2 class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-5 scroll-mt-24">What the project is</h2><p class="mb-3 leading-relaxed">PostboxMap is a place for:</p><ul class="list-disc pl-6 mb-6 space-y-1.5 text-gray-700 dark:text-gray-300"><li>postbox spotters</li><li>local historians</li><li>photographers</li><li>collectors</li><li>curious walkers</li></ul><p class="mb-3 leading-relaxed">You can:</p><ul class="list-disc pl-6 mb-6 space-y-1.5 text-gray-700 dark:text-gray-300"><li>find postboxes on a map</li><li>search by monarch or cypher</li><li>explore pillar boxes, wall boxes and lamp boxes</li><li>upload photos of boxes you discover</li><li>log the postboxes you have visited</li></ul><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Postboxes are small pieces of everyday history. Many have been standing on the same street corner for over a century.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Mapping them helps preserve that history.</p></section><section class="mb-12"><h2 class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-5 scroll-mt-24">Locations and the map</h2><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Elsewhere online you will sometimes see advice not to share precise postbox locations. The concern is that rare boxes could be damaged or stolen.</p><p class="mb-4 font-medium text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-200">PostboxMap takes a different approach.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Postboxes are public street furniture designed to be used and found. Much of the location information already exists in various forms.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">This map simply brings that information together so people can find postboxes, photograph them, and appreciate them.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">If that trade-off does not work for you, you may prefer not to use the map or to share only general areas when posting elsewhere.</p></section><section class="mb-12"><h2 class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-5 scroll-mt-24">Open by default</h2><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">PostboxMap believes postbox data should be open. Postboxes are public objects, installed for public use, paid for with public money, and standing on public streets. There is no good reason to keep their locations or descriptions behind closed doors.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Everything on this site is free to access. The data is available through a public API. Photographs are contributed by users and credited to them. The map is open to anyone who wants to explore it.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">If you are an experienced postbox enthusiast, historian, or researcher, you are especially welcome here. Your knowledge makes the map better for everyone.</p></section><section class="mb-12"><h2 class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-5 scroll-mt-24">Get involved</h2><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">There is a growing community behind the site.</p><p class="mb-3 leading-relaxed">People use PostboxMap to:</p><ul class="list-disc pl-6 mb-6 space-y-1.5 text-gray-700 dark:text-gray-300"><li>record postboxes they have visited</li><li>photograph rare boxes</li><li>document different cyphers</li><li>fill gaps in the map</li><li>build tools using the API</li></ul><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Every photo and new location improves the map.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">If you enjoy spotting postboxes, exploring local history, or documenting unusual street furniture, you are welcome to take part. You will be helping build a crowdsourced record of UK postal heritage.</p><p class="mb-5 leading-relaxed">Researchers, historians and enthusiasts are also welcome to explore the data or contribute observations to help improve the map over time.</p><div class="rounded-xl bg-primary/5 border border-primary/20 p-5 sm:p-6"><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed text-gray-700"><a class="inline align-baseline [font-size:inherit] leading-inherit transition-colors duration-150 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2 rounded-sm text-primary hover:text-primary-hover underline-offset-2 hover:underline font-semibold" href="/register">Join the community</a>, explore the <a class="inline align-baseline [font-size:inherit] leading-inherit transition-colors duration-150 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2 rounded-sm text-primary hover:text-primary-hover font-medium underline-offset-2 hover:underline" href="/map">map</a>, check the <a class="inline align-baseline [font-size:inherit] leading-inherit transition-colors duration-150 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2 rounded-sm text-primary hover:text-primary-hover font-medium underline-offset-2 hover:underline" href="/leaderboard">leaderboard</a>, or read about <a class="inline align-baseline [font-size:inherit] leading-inherit transition-colors duration-150 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2 rounded-sm text-primary hover:text-primary-hover font-medium underline-offset-2 hover:underline" href="/scoring">scoring</a>. Questions? <a class="inline align-baseline [font-size:inherit] leading-inherit transition-colors duration-150 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2 rounded-sm text-primary hover:text-primary-hover font-medium underline-offset-2 hover:underline" href="/contact">Get in touch</a>.</p><p class="text-gray-600 text-sm leading-relaxed m-0">Every contribution helps build a clearer picture of the UK&#x27;
6s postbox network.</p><p class="text-gray-600 text-sm leading-relaxed mt-3 m-0">Interested in postbox history in more depth? The <a class="inline align-baseline [font-size:inherit] leading-inherit transition-colors duration-150 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2 rounded-sm text-primary hover:text-primary-hover font-medium underline-offset-2 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lbsg.org/?ref=postboxmap.co.uk">Letter Box Study Group</a> is the UK authority on letter box heritage and well worth joining alongside PostboxMap.</p></div></section><section class="mb-12"><h2 class="text-xl font-semibold text-gray-900 dark:text-white mb-5 scroll-mt-24">Funding and transparency</h2><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">PostboxMap is a solo project built and maintained by one developer. It is not backed by a company, funded by grants, or run for profit.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">Running the site costs real money: hosting, database, map tiles, image storage, and email delivery all have monthly costs. To cover these, the site shows a small number of ads and accepts voluntary contributions via <a class="inline align-baseline [font-size:inherit] leading-inherit transition-colors duration-150 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary focus-visible:ring-offset-2 rounded-sm text-primary hover:text-primary-hover font-medium underline-offset-2 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lukedev?ref=postboxmap.co.uk">Buy Me a Coffee</a>.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">The Android app is on Google Play; the iOS App Store listing is coming soon. The native apps include ads with an option to remove them for a small monthly subscription. This is not about generating income; it is about keeping the lights on.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">There is no paywall on the website. The map, data, and API are free and will stay free. Every postbox record, photograph, and piece of data on PostboxMap is accessible without logging in or paying anything.</p><p class="mb-4 leading-relaxed">If you find the project useful and want to help it continue, a contribution of any size is appreciated. 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