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

[Eric Christensen]

On 06/10/2010 02:50 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> 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.
> 

As much as I'd love to have this data I, too, feel that this data may be
too old.  I know I've walked blocks in DC trying to find a mailbox
before so this data would be great to have.

Maybe this would be better as a project of the week?

--Eric