UK Postboxes Topic

I’m just posting between calls, but I would think another moderator will merge this with the postbox thread.

As a FYI, there’s no Elizabeth I postboxes, and all the other King George V postboxes in the area doesn’t have any bearing on this one being accepted. Feel free to look through that topic and ask for further advice there.

I would resubmit it with a better photo. Can you share the rest of the nomination such as supporting information and description in that thread too?

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I meant ER II. Typo there.


Here’s the location. I thought I would give it a go before I saw other George R postboxes as stops.

For something like this, I would have resubmitted rather than use an appeal. It’s a real GR postbox with no other wayspots especially close to it.

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I find it’s useful to include the years of their reign in the description. To beef it up a bit, you say the building was a post office. Can you find out when it closed to add that in?

The first post in this thread has some stats for how many King George V postboxes there are, which could also help.

Resubmit it, it just needs to be a bit meatier in the description I think.

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Actually. I’ve found this now.

I think this would be classified as being on the property of 25B.

So for Niantic, would fall under rejection criteria of being on private residential property

If I’ve got the wrong location, let me know.

Will EiiR postboxes ever be eligible?

Every postbox I see does not have the EiiR tag on it, to be fair, having them eligible would mean that they are everywhere, they’re really common.

I doubt it. There’s over 75,000 of them.

The other ones just about skim by on historical significance. The next highest amount are King George V with a little over 17,000.

What criteria would you class Elizabeth II postboxes under?

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That’s the one. There was another stop on the same road with a plaque on someone’s house. Im not sure what the house is now. The post office must have closed a long time ago

If it’s on a single family private residence (that is, not a block of flats etc.) then it should be removed.

I’ll bring up the well-worn argument that the wall box is not a part of the SFPRP and is distinct, although in this case it does look like access intrudes on the path. I’m surprised it’s still there.

I wouldn’t say they are 100% historical, but when the new King Charles III postboxes become the most common, maybe the EiiR postboxes could become eligible?

I think my view on this is somewhere in this thread.

The very first one Charles III one is a significant event, and there’s news stories you could find and that one would be eligible due to being a great place for exploration as a historic item.

The 10,000th Elizabeth II postbox? No.

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I looked at the wall box on Queens Road. It’s on a self-standing brick block that is not part of the property boundary, so I didn’t bother mentioning SFPRP since I would accept it as a wayspot.

Based on what I’ve seen, in the UK, when a plaque (or something equivalent) is on a garden wall immediately against the pavement, it gets accepted as a wayspot and they don’t get removed by anyone. When it’s on a house immediately adjacent to the pavement, it doesn’t get accepted.

That’s not the Niantic (Scopely) rules, but neither are historical postboxes, it’s a UK thing.

I can assure you those do get reported for removal.

I’m just saying what I’ve observed. If someone wants to report one, I’m not going to complain, but I just haven’t noticed it happening.

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I visited that one. Annoyingly it didn’t show in PoGo or Ingress due to proximity :frowning:

As an aside, I tend to look favourably on wall boxes but in some cases these legacy wall boxes are in a ridiculous position, for example this one - https://maps.app.goo.gl/C1rXMwsAi4jJYVRb9

You can’t reach this wall box (still in use) without reaching across somebody’s garden. Obviously this used to be the old post office (aren’t these often culprits). Despite the wall box being legally distinct Royal Mail property, it is hugely intrusive on this SFPRP.

I am not sure where this specific wall box is in terms of PRP. Its clear that this was once one building with a shop/postoffice on ground floor and flats above. It is now 3 properties 1 on 2 floors and the other 2 are flats. Starts to sound multi family. There is no common entrance door it is more like a terrace so back to SF. From the layout it appears to be that the one next to the box is probably an entrance to a flat on topfloor. Sometimes there is one common holder of the building.
Who owns the the frontage on which the box sits. Maybe all 3 are responsible or it could all belong to number 25 or one person could own the building freehold and have retained the front area.
This is not something that is easy to unravel and quite technical. I don’t think in the UK anyone would be fussed as people will use the post box and probably stand there (as you do ). However this is governed by wayfarer rules so the easy solution is to err on the side of caution and treat as SFPRP. It is probably why it is not already a wayspot.

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