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 openLodging a parcel in the parcel chuteA view of the solar panels on top of the Royal Mail posting box