<div dir="auto">I can't comment on the IOW (islands are often treated differently by postal services), but my understanding is that the change of lesser-used post boxes to collection-on-delivery was made quite a few years back on the mainland. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Certainly, I've mapped early last collection times since I started contributing OSM in 2014, so it's likely that many existing mapped collection times in the database reflect the current reality. I certainly would strongly caution against deleting this existing information.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Adam</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 4 Dec 2021, 14:24 Timothy Baker, <<a href="mailto:osm@exaggerated.org">osm@exaggerated.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Everyone,<br>
<br>
It has come to my attention that Royal Mail have changed the "Last <br>
Collection Time" on most mailboxes in the UK. The boxes are being <br>
emptied by postmen/women on their usual rounds, rather than by the Man <br>
in a Van old method.<br>
<br>
In my area most postboxes have changed to 9am MF, 7am Sat. I think this <br>
is just them covering themselves because the postman never comes that <br>
early around here, it's more like Noon. So they are just saying "we'll <br>
empty it when we feel like it, sometime after 9am".<br>
<br>
It seems to be recent in my area, The IOW was done in March 2020 <br>
(<a href="https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/18279532.postal-deadline-now-9am-isle-wight-letters-reveals-royal-mail/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/18279532.postal-deadline-now-9am-isle-wight-letters-reveals-royal-mail/</a>)<br>
<br>
What are people's opinions regarding a mass change of data?<br>
<br>
Should existing collection times be removed so they can be added again <br>
by people doing surveys with apps?<br>
<br>
Sorry if this has been covered before, I'm new to this mailing list and <br>
couldn't find anything in the archive.<br>
<br>
Thanks, Tim<br>
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