[Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kirk Ireson <palmerstation at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was adding a couple local USPS Post Office drop box locations using
> Potlatch when I wondered if there was a public list of locations I could
> upload.  I did find that there was a release of 2005 locations that was
> released under the Freedom of Information Act.  There are 20 Excel files
> ranging from 14,000 to 65,000 lines in length each and it looks like they do
> have all the locations.  I thought it would be a good project for me to
> extract/clean up the data and geocode it for upload (only addresses are
> given in the files) and so would like to first seek feedback from the
> community before proceeding especially with regards to licensing, tagging
> and geocoding.

I'd vote against it, the data is from 5 years ago... The Post Office
has been removing a lot of drop boxes as the volume of mail has
decreased.  I'm sure that the collection dates and times have changed
too.

-- 
Jeff Ollie