[Talk-GB] Post Box Last Collection Times

[Chris Andrew]

That's some excellent reporting that Robert has done. The stats suggest
that Post Boxes could do with more validation, although the FOI was some
time ago.

Chris
chris_debian

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021, 13:25 Steven Hirschorn, <steven.hirschorn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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