Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel

Dizzycap

NBLondon said:

Anybody seen one of these yet?  Solar-powered postboxes are being rolled out across UK - BBC News

Postbox spotters are up in arms saying these are ugly and will be an excuse to shut down subpostoffices in some areas.  I can see their point but for sending out the test parcels, this would be a lot easier for me if there was one nearby.  No queuing with a mailbag at the PO, can send at 7am if I want to.

I thought that's what the RM inpost lockers were for?  I can't see these pillar boxes holding more than 6-8 shoe box sized parcels at a time! I can see them being a benefit in more rural areas where people might want to post parcels and have a 10-15 mile trip to do so. Now that would make for a sensible move, but hardly unlikely!
I'm due to go on rest in the next couple of weeks after a 6+ month stint and to be honest, it will be nice to have a break over the Christmas period as I usually have enough to post  The rest period email states that I can still partake in regular app quizzes which should be interesting. 

Money_Grabber13579

Dizzycap said:

NBLondon said:

Anybody seen one of these yet?  Solar-powered postboxes are being rolled out across UK - BBC News

Postbox spotters are up in arms saying these are ugly and will be an excuse to shut down subpostoffices in some areas.  I can see their point but for sending out the test parcels, this would be a lot easier for me if there was one nearby.  No queuing with a mailbag at the PO, can send at 7am if I want to.

I thought that's what the RM inpost lockers were for?  I can't see these pillar boxes holding more than 6-8 shoe box sized parcels at a time! I can see them being a benefit in more rural areas where people might want to post parcels and have a 10-15 mile trip to do so. Now that would make for a sensible move, but hardly unlikely!
I'm due to go on rest in the next couple of weeks after a 6+ month stint and to be honest, it will be nice to have a break over the Christmas period as I usually have enough to post  The rest period email states that I can still partake in regular app quizzes which should be interesting. 

I suspect they will be more useful in smaller towns and villages that are less likely to have parcel lockers and I suppose even in cities that might have them, the chances are that someone will have a post box closer to them than the parcel lockers.

It does seem that it only going to be the proper pillar boxes which will be converted and not any of the smaller boxes on posts. Unfortunately, all of the boxes close to me are the latter!

silvercar

Round my way a lot of post boxes have knitted hats, a lot of people are going to be upset.

The postbox toppers that captivated communities https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-63833983