[Talk-GB] Post Box Last Collection Times

[SK53]

Hi Timothy,

This has been on-going for at least 6 years or so (I'm just looking for the
first one local to me, which I think was this one
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/323756928>). At least here it happened
box by box.

The reference for the post box has the letter "D" postfixed, and thus they
can be found quite easily. There are over 13,000 mapped this way in England
(with about 39k having collection times).

I think removing the collection times would annoy a lot of people who have
been keeping such data up-to-date. Note that StreetComplete
has a task to check/update collection times too, so some may get updated
fairly regularly by that process.

Jerry



On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 14:24, Timothy Baker <osm at exaggerated.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> It has come to my attention that Royal Mail have changed the "Last
> Collection Time" on most mailboxes in the UK. The boxes are being
> emptied by postmen/women on their usual rounds, rather than by the Man
> in a Van old method.
>
> In my area most postboxes have changed to 9am MF, 7am Sat. I think this
> is just them covering themselves because the postman never comes that
> early around here, it's more like Noon. So they are just saying "we'll
> empty it when we feel like it, sometime after 9am".
>
> It seems to be recent in my area, The IOW was done in March 2020
> (
> https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/18279532.postal-deadline-now-9am-isle-wight-letters-reveals-royal-mail/
> )
>
> What are people's opinions regarding a mass change of data?
>
> Should existing collection times be removed so they can be added again
> by people doing surveys with apps?
>
> Sorry if this has been covered before, I'm new to this mailing list and
> couldn't find anything in the archive.
>
> Thanks, Tim
>
>
>
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