It’s a situation we’ve all been in, not knowing where our nearest post box is. First port of call you would think would be the Royal Mail web site. There you can find your nearest post office, buy stamps online, recycle your mobile phone and now even put your own face on a stamp! But you can’t look up your nearest post box! Come on now people, this is the year 2010.

Through the Freedom of Information Act, some clever people have managed to get all the locations of UK post boxes and have built a neat lookup tool to help you find the closest post boxes to your location – free.

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