[Talk-GB] Post Box Last Collection Times

[Steven Hirschorn]

Robert Whittaker's excellent "Post Hoc" tool (
https://osm.mathmos.net/postboxes/) shows, for each Postcode region, all
the postboxes recorded in OSM, the reference numbers, the collection times,
whether they have been reconciled against a definitive list of postboxes
supplied by Royal Mail many years ago, and when the post box nodes in OSM
were last updated. If deleting collection times en masse was a good idea (I
don't think it is) at a minimum you'd want to not remove any content that
has been updated in the last n years. Any fields in OSM could be out of
date, that should be a job for asking for re-surveys, not proactive
deletions.



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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