A massive thank you to Ivan (Dunkaist), an OSM contributor, who pointed out a mistake with type e and d. The mistake has been fixed. Without Ivan we likely would have never realised. Thank you
type_e: Elliptic cylinder shaped freestanding pillar box with one slot for mail at one end and a stamp vending machine at the other. The type E is smaller than the type D and can be distinguished from the type D by the words "Post" and "Office" being on two lines under the royal cypher on the type E.
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type_d:Elliptic cylinder shaped freestanding pillar box with one slot for mail at one end and a stamp vending machine at the other. The type D is larger than the type E and can be distinguished from the type E by the words "Post Office" being on one line under the royal cypher on the type D.
A massive thank you to Ivan (Dunkaist), an OSM contributor, who pointed out a mistake with type e and d. The mistake has been fixed. Without Ivan we likely would have never realised. Thank you
Difference between type_e and type_d is very subtle and I can now see details updated on this in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:post_box:design.
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type_e: Elliptic cylinder shaped freestanding pillar box with one slot for mail at one end and a stamp vending machine at the other. The type E is smaller than the type D and can be distinguished from the type D by the words "Post" and "Office" being on two lines under the royal cypher on the type E.
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type_d:Elliptic cylinder shaped freestanding pillar box with one slot for mail at one end and a stamp vending machine at the other. The type D is larger than the type E and can be distinguished from the type E by the words "Post Office" being on one line under the royal cypher on the type D.
Happy Halloween!
does anyone know if King Charles will make a new type of postbox. We have his new cypher but what about type and design!
That's amazing! Keep going I want to see them all :)
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Very cool site, nice pictures!
My number one!