UK Postboxes Topic

If it gets accepted feel free to send me a gift :slight_smile: or anyone else who happens to see a little blue box in Almondbury, Scarborough, Newport or Leicester.

The MK museum also has a City of London Police Post somewhere inside

https://www.the-telephone-box.co.uk/furniture/police-post/

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Maybe you need a Police Box thread? I need to send you the one that mentions Timeless Child but signal is rough near that one.

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Please :slight_smile:

Maybe a weird, street furniture from the UK thread.

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Talking about post boxes i just got a king george VI accepted

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Via community review?

Yep and i’ve got got a king George V postbox thats been in queue for 4 days now so it’ll probably also go to community reviews.

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Looks like Emily is squaring up for a fight with the UK hive mind.

My money is on Emily :robot: :heartpulse:

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Hi all, Personally I think the good old British mailbox is almost as unequal as the Red Phone Boxes of age, which all seem to be book swaps now, but still find themselves approved. I think most are identifiable, in spaced out locations and more importantly walkable for most players.

As someone who does still use the good old Red Royal Mail postbox and not having many options for Waypoints in my area these are the most suitable candidate for those large residential areas which often have no local stop within walking distance.

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Ill figure out how to get round emily, i managed it before lol

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Emily is coming round to NCN markers they just need a bit of persuasion on postboxes.

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Ive found she seems to like ones that have names, even if a really crappy one like around perth (or whatever it was called lol)

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That’s really good to see, last year I got reported for abuse over a postbox

Whilst it shouldn’t be flagged as abuse, the majority of UK reviewers agree that E II R postboxes don’t meet criteria so the rejection is correct in that instance.

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Someone wrongly clicked abuse during review, it almost. Certainly did not create any abuse record on your account - I have had someone do the same to me.

It was correctly rejected as not meeting the criteria by other reviewers.

Is it possible that you have tried this several times so reviewers have seen it come through again and again even though they have already rejected it?
This could be seen as spamming the same illegible submission in an attempt to force it through?

Hi, no was only the once it was tried, I did appeal it as where I used to live postboxes were a regular sight as points in ingress and Pokemon go so assumed they were acceptable.

It was only when I looked deeper in to the community that I really discovered there was such a divide on opinion relating to them.

Don’t get me wrong I am more than happy to follow and abide by rules, I agree not everything should be a stop, but in this case i do believe they should be allowed. I can really see why there is debate on this tho, with there being some and not others, to some its as identifiable and confusingly the option for ‘mailboxes’ is even in the options for selected appropriate categories.

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Just my opinion and thanks for the reply’s. It is helpful to engage with
pothers on topics like this as it helps greatly when submitting new criteria.

Unfortunately (as it confuses many) the categories you select in Wayfarer and PokĂ©mon GO doesn’t mean those items are necessarily eligible.

Yea, fast learned that I believe benches and memorial benches are a debatable topic too lol

Just as examples on the categories. It’s very clear in the Wayfarer criteria that many of the schools in the list are not eligible.


It’s just a list of categories for places on maps that Niantic will have obtained from elsewhere and used.