[Talk-GB] Disused post boxes

[SK53]

First, post boxes do go out of commission temporarily for various reasons.
Snails eating the post is one I've seen. Some, just dont work in a given
location, like this one <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1018817841>
mapped by Gregory Marler, which has been a zombie post box for a lot longer
than it was a post box.

Secondly, there are a number of historically significant post boxes which
are no longer in use. Two which come to mind are the Air Mail box
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1574742829> outside Windsor Castle & the
one <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/416856132> which was bombed by
suffragettes pre-WW1 in Hampstead.

In all these cases the fact that you can't post letters there was rather
obscured, so I've updated them to disused:amenity. The downside is that
someone may see them not rendered & try and add them again (which may be
why I used disused=yes for the Windsor one in the first place).

Jerry

On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 at 18:23, Mat Attlee <mattattlee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've noticed several disused mail boxes around Hackney that either have
> had their reference and collection times removed, had the letter slot taped
> over or had a sign indicating they were closed. Is it best practice to mark
> them as disused:amenity=post_box? eg
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/114580835
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