Good luck. Usually postboxes don’t fare well on Appeal as it is difficult for the non-UK reviewers to see the relevance.
So don’t be disheartened if they don’t accept it. You can always renominate it.
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Are Niantics reviewers American?
I’m trying to work out why a coal tax submission was rejected by them as ‘generic business’. An our team email but not AI/ML judging by how long it was in voting with them compared to another 10 submissions made at the same time which came back accepted within 24 hours
@KeyserSoze can you provide the details please.
I think @PeteC303 has also had coal tax posts rejected but maybe the memory cheats.
I’m pretty sure a lot of people, even UK people, don’t understand their historic, cultural, geographic significance
Just a standard coal tax post with description saying tax was historically collected there
I also wondered if it went to Niantic vote because of the word pleasure in the title or if it was just random
Pleasure Pit? 
Just for reference
http://www.metadyne.co.uk/Research.htm
https://esher-residents.com/2021/01/31/coal-posts/
https://rhaworth.net/cowi/postlist.php
Yours has a listing too
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1277033
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Post pleasure pit
Anyways……
Avoid using the word standard at anytime 
I’ve not seen one.
Worth having a go at appealing I think
1* Live Animal??
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Nope. Never submitted them.
Sorry, it was ages ago on the old forum 
TL;DR on their history
Coal to London is taxed since the 14th,15th century.
Great Fire of London in 1666 destroys the city
Coal tax helps rebuild St Paul’s, New Oxford Street, Old Bailey, Blackfriars Bridge, sewer systems, 50+ churches, West End, Southwark, Royal Exchange, Napoleonic Wars and more.
City of London in debt. Act passed to pay for it by using taxes. Port of London put up these posts in the 1860’s as points to pay the tax coming into London.
Opposition to the taxes. Coal tax money is used to free up tolls over many of London’s bridges. Tax is eventually scrapped as the posts extend over an area much larger, see above, and the money from them is used mostly in Central London.
200ish of them still left dotted around the outskirts of London.
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Super interesting!!
Great resources there, bookmarked!
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Posts have to have fun too
Appeals seem to be taking forever and it seems 50/whether they read the supplied information or linked proof of things. At this point in time I trust Emily more than community voters & Niantic voters. Something I thought I would ever say …
Feels like I have submitted at least half of these 200
In the past I submitted about 8 in one day as all along a route and half were rejected and I never did retry submitting the rejected ones so still not in any games.
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I’ve definitely seen a few out by Esher, Staines ,Thames Ditton and other places.
I’d say these have much more relevance, history and importance than a certain other bit of street furniture…
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K2 are rare so it’s a case of a well written submission is needed.