Does the Uk have a standard mail box key??

[bosshog]

Hi,

wasn/t sure how to title this. Basically when I lived in France most people have a mail box ( like this ). All of the french postal service have a 'master' key which can unlock these to put in parcels and letters etc. Does the Uk have anything equivalent?

The reason I ask, is we've just put some gates on the house so delivery people can no long hide parcels etc around the back when they deliver plus the postman can't post the letters. I was thinking about making or buying a very large box to put on the outside wall. Now I could make one without a lock and hope nothing ever gets nicked (crime rate is very low here) but was just wondering if there was a standard Uk postal lock I could use?

[HotJambalaya]

I've never heard of one here, I know the US has something similar.

I can't imagine its much use though, surely anyone nicking mail from boxes already has a copy. Might as well get a big box that doesn't lock, and hope that out of sight out of mind works.

[mgtony]

There are delivery boxes like this available that let the delivery person lock it after the delivery.

http://www.asgardsss.co.uk/parcel-delivery-boxes

http://www.theibin.com/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Parcel-Drop-Box-PARCEL-DEL...

[V8RX7]

I get large items regularly and bought a large plastic "garden store" type box and fitted a padlock that's identical to the one in the first link above.

The only problem is if you get two large deliveries in a day or get a new postie who doesn't know the system.

[dumfriesdave]

Locked box with a key to local Royal Mail office?
I am a postie.
When I leave in the morning I have a set of keys for my route.
Master keys for blocks of flats, and keys for a few customers' sheds, outbuildings etc.

[V8RX7]

dumfriesdave said:

Locked box with a key to local Royal Mail office?
I have a set of keys for my route.
Master keys for blocks of flats, and keys for a few customers' sheds, outbuildings etc.

I've never heard of this - Thanks

[All that jazz]

mgtony said:

There are delivery boxes like this available that let the delivery person lock it after the delivery.

http://www.asgardsss.co.uk/parcel-delivery-boxes

http://www.theibin.com/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Parcel-Drop-Box-PARCEL-DEL...

TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FOUR POUNDS for a square metal box with a crappy lock on it? What planet are they on?