How to Find an InPost Locker Near You

The InPost app is the one to use. Allow it to use your location (or type a postcode), and the map shows each locker and InPost Shop with its address, distance, access hours and a live count of free compartments by size. It also gives directions. The locker finder on inpost.co.uk shows the same sites and is fine on a laptop, but it is the app you will want standing in a car park.

The marketplace apps help too. After a Vinted or eBay sale with an InPost label, the app usually shows a map of nearby drop-off points, and the QR code it generates works at every InPost locker and shop in the UK, not just the one it suggests.

Every InPost compartment is 38 cm wide and 64 cm high; the sizes differ only in depth, at 8 cm (Small), 19 cm (Medium) and 41 cm (Large). When you tap a locker in the app you see how many of each are free right now. For a marketplace parcel you choose the compartment size on the locker screen when you arrive, so what you are checking is whether the size your packed parcel needs will still be there.

Lockers are emptied at least once a day, usually in the morning, so the pattern repeats: plenty of space before 10am, Large compartments gone first in busy town centres, and a full locker in the evening that is clear again by the next mid-morning. If the app shows one Large compartment left at a locker fifteen minutes away, assume it will not be there when you arrive and pick a site with several.

Lockers are not all the same model. The units in supermarket car parks and on retail parks are the larger ones with the most Large compartments; small units on pavements and inside newsagents may have only a handful of Large slots or none. InPost's supermarket partners are Tesco (around 1,000 sites), Aldi (600 and rising) and, under a deal announced in September 2026, up to 700 Asda stores, with Sainsbury's and petrol station forecourts adding more.

If your parcel needs a Large compartment (a coat, boxed shoes or a bundle), head for a supermarket locker first. If it only needs a Small or Medium, the street locker round the corner will usually do. Repacking changes the answer: a coat rolled tightly in a mailing bag with the air pressed out often drops from Large to Medium, which is both cheaper when you send direct and far easier to find.

Outdoor lockers in car parks, on forecourts and on pavements are normally accessible at any hour. Lockers inside stores and shopping centres are only reachable while the host is open, and a few sites on retail parks are inside gates that are locked overnight. The app shows the access hours for each site, so check them before planning an early-morning or late-night drop-off rather than assuming '24/7' applies.

InPost Shops are staffed counters, around 4,000 of them including the former Yodel stores that joined the network in July 2026. Staff scan your QR code (or type the code) and take the parcel over the counter, printing a temporary label. They are the answer when every nearby locker is full, and for a parcel that fits InPost's 41 × 38 × 64 cm and 15 kg limits but is awkward for the compartment on offer. InPost has been shifting volume from shops to lockers, so check in the app that the shop you remember still takes parcels.

Three jumpers sold as a Vinted bundle pack to 44 × 36 × 22 cm in a box, which needs a Large compartment. At 6pm the app shows the street locker by the station with no Large compartments free and the Tesco locker a mile away with six. The Tesco site is in a car park with 24-hour access, so you go there, scan the Vinted QR code, choose Large and close the door. Had you repacked the jumpers in a mailing bag (about 15 cm deep), a Medium at the station locker would have done, and the app showed four of those free.