Royal Mail Gatwick Sorting Office Useful place to know if you need to post something late!Post boxes at the front entrance to the site. Posted 18th Jul 2020. Over a week ago I noticed that lots of post boxes and sorting offices have NHS priority on them for testing kits. I normally use these to post low value items the first items posted arrived fine so carried on using as normal. Items posted in the last week seem to not arrived as yet (over 5 days) not received FB but buyers.
Royal Mail Priority Post Box
Fri 21 Aug 2020, 10:21 (last edited on Fri 21 Aug 2020, 10:29)
Liz, The priority post boxes are the ones with later collection times. For Charlbury, this only includes the Coop and Cornbury (picks up at 16.00 and also on Saturdays). Spelsbury also is 4 p.m. The times for the others listed on this website: https://www.royalmail.com/priority-postboxes. For our postcode the late time seems to be 4 p.m.
The samples need to be tested promptly which is why the timing matters. Also I think that it's to protect our posties that certain postboxes are designated priority. They use a plastic bag & use other precautions when emtying the box.
So getting a postbox in Charlbury to be designated a priority postbox is not just a matter of re-labelling, it means getting a later collection organised for one postbox. And wouldn't that in any case be good!
The Royal Mail website is not very good (surprise, surprise), so it turns out that Enstone has a 17.00 collection (never knew that), but you can only find this information by spoofing a different address. Also Chipping Norton Delivery Office is 17.30 on a weekday & 12.00 on a Saturday.
Where Are Priority Post Boxes
By the way, for those who are needing a symptomatic test, I do recommend going to Water Eaton (Oxford Parkway) if you can get there (cars and vehicular access only). The test is very hard to do oneself, so I was pleased to have assistance; there was no waiting, and I had my results back in around 6 hours.