The Green boxes that are popping up all over

Hootanany

Dublin An Post green but have no slot just a keyhole, what are they for and do they need planning permission to install them?

I hope this makes sense

odyssey06

I think I know the ones you mean, was curious about them too ... they are An Post green but do actually have anything on them stating that they are owned by An Post?

NyOmnishambles

Don't know about planning

They are drop off point for the postmen.women

Van goes round in advance and drops the postbag off, means they can do their route without returning to the depot for get more, it is fairly effecient

Hootanany

No nothing on them one just popped up at the end of my street there was nothing there before hence planning issue.

irishgeo

NyOmnishambles wrote: »

Don't know about planning

They are drop off point for the postmen.women

Van goes round in advance and drops the postbag off, means they can do their route without returning to the depot for get more, it is fairly effecient

the bicycle post people use them a lot.

Victor

Hootanany wrote: »

do they need planning permission to install them?

Up to a certain monetary value, street furniture is subject to a council licensing scheme not planning permission. So post boxes, phone boxes, street signs, tables & chairs, etc. use the licensing scheme, bus stops and other larger items need planning permission. Council works can use Part 8 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, which has a modified procedure.

Hootanany

So drop of points for the postman.
Many thanks to all

jameshayes

are you seeing these boxes?



if so, they are the Eircom fiber boxes

Hootanany

jameshayes wrote: »

are you seeing these boxes?



if so, they are the Eircom fiber boxes

Nope they are on a post and have only a key showing

Paulzx

An Post seem to have closed a lot of small, local sorting offices and replaced them with large centralised warehouses in industrial estates and business parks.

These warehouses are obviously a lot further from the post routes so it seems that the green boxes are drop of points for local post that the postmen can access and save themselves travelling to the sorting office.

The downside for the customer is that they have to travel further to the sorting office in order to collect parcels that haven't been delivered whereas before they only had to go to their local sorting office

Cathmandooo

Those boxes are for local businesses to drop their metered post into. We were given a key for our local one. It means you can post bulkier items too.

I assume you mean the one on the left in this photo?

January

No, much smaller.

Like this.

Cathmandooo

January wrote: »

No, much smaller.

Like this.

Never seen those before, they sound handy for the posties so

I love how on that link it disappears if you go down the road a bit, magic post box

Hootanany

January wrote: »

No, much smaller.

Like this.

Yes thats the one

Victor

All three together:

Left - delivery box
Centre - meter post
Right - standard post

tampopo

Paulzx wrote: »

An Post seem to have closed a lot of small, local sorting offices and replaced them with large centralised warehouses in industrial estates and business parks.

These warehouses are obviously a lot further from the post routes so it seems that the green boxes are drop of points for local post that the postmen can access and save themselves travelling to the sorting office.

The downside for the customer is that they have to travel further to the sorting office in order to collect parcels that haven't been delivered whereas before they only had to go to their local sorting office

This is not true at all. All Dublin post codes have their own sorting office and sort and deliver their own area.

This is a box the OP was talking about as described by Victor....

LXFlyer

I assumed that they're boxes where postmen can leave their full bag of mail and continue on their round with a smaller batch of post and then collect more as they go along.

L1011

lxflyer wrote: »

I assumed that they're boxes where postmen can leave their full bag of mail and continue on their round with a smaller batch of post and then collect more as they go along.

More usually a van stages post out so more than one bikeload can be delivered in one go

Muahahaha

The pic Victor posted looks a bit odd with the three units side by side. You'd think that they would have designed another unit that could both take meter mail and be a holding locker for bicycle postmen to pick up their loads rather than having to head back to base. And then use that unit in locations where both facility were required rather than blocking up the pavements with two separate units when one could have done the job.

Victor

Muahahaha wrote: »

The pic Victor posted looks a bit odd with the three units side by side. You'd think that they would have designed another unit that could both take meter mail and be a holding locker for bicycle postmen to pick up their loads rather than having to head back to base. And then use that unit in locations where both facility were required rather than blocking up the pavements with two separate units when one could have done the job.

The meter post units are relatively rare and are mostly used in the city centre. The delivery boxes show up everywhere. To do what you want, they would need a fourth (actually sixth) design that would incorporate the two functions.

This is Baggot Street Upper at the post office

Left - delivery box, attached to other unit
2 & 3 - double, new style, wide slot post box
4 - old style, wide slot post box
Right - meter post