Next-generation posting box

Royal Mail has introduced a new-look street posting box in the UK, featuring solar panels, a parcel lodgement chute, and a barcode scanner.

  • Royal Mail is trialling a new-look street posting box in five locations
  • Linking posting boxes to the post's app
  • Lodging parcels in street posting boxes with proof of posting
  • Inbuilt solar powered barcode scanner (see main photo above)
  • Capacity of posting box
  • Solution for time-poor consumers lodging parcels outside business hours
  • Could Australia Post link its MyPost app to street posting boxes?
  • Parcel lockers
  • Enhancing street posting boxes

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The Royal Mail street posting box, with the parcel aperture open
Lodging a parcel in the parcel chute
A view of the solar panels on top of the Royal Mail posting box
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