# PostFinder post offices and parcel points (remote · api.postfinder.io)

Nearest post offices, parcel lockers and post boxes in AU, NZ, US, UK and Canada. Free, no key.

- Trust score: 78/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-07

## Components

- remote · `api.postfinder.io`: 78/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-postfinder-places/api.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-postfinder-places/api)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://api.postfinder.io/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-07.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 80/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 415 tokens (~138/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the PostFinder post offices and parcel points MCP server?

PostFinder post offices and parcel points is a hosted endpoint at https://api.postfinder.io/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http io-postfinder-places 'https://api.postfinder.io/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-postfinder-places": {
      "url": "https://api.postfinder.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "io-postfinder-places": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.postfinder.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.io-postfinder-places]
url = "https://api.postfinder.io/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "io-postfinder-places": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://api.postfinder.io/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add io-postfinder-places --url 'https://api.postfinder.io/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  io-postfinder-places:
    url: "https://api.postfinder.io/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "io-postfinder-places": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://api.postfinder.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add io-postfinder-places -t streamable-http -u 'https://api.postfinder.io/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-postfinder-places": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.postfinder.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-07 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-06 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-03 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-01 (score 75, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-09-30 (score 74)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `find_places` (~169 tokens)

Find post offices and parcel points near a coordinate

The places nearest a point, nearest first, with their distance, address, opening hours and the page each one is on. Ask for a category when the question names one: post-offices, parcel-lockers, drop-off-points, post-boxes, express-post-boxes or collection-points.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Optional: post-offices, parcel-lockers, drop-off-points, post-boxes, express-post-boxes or collection-points. Omit for any kind.
- `country` (string, required): Country slug: australia, united-states, united-kingdom, canada or new-zealand.
- `lat` (number, required): Latitude in degrees, between -90 and 90.
- `lng` (number, required): Longitude in degrees, between -180 and 180.

Output parameters:

- `places` (null|array): The places within 50 km, nearest first, at most 30.

### `get_place` (~61 tokens)

Read one place in full

Everything about one place from an earlier answer: address, opening hours, what it accepts, and when the record was last checked.

Input parameters:

- `public_id` (string, required): The id from an earlier answer, the last part of a place's URL: abc12345.

Output parameters:

- `place` (object)

### `search_places` (~59 tokens)

Find a suburb or a place by name

Suburbs and places matching a name, for turning 'Coburg' or 'Coburg Post Office' into somewhere with a coordinate and a page.

Input parameters:

- `q` (string, required): A suburb, a postcode or a place name. At least two characters.

Output parameters:

- `results` (null|array)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-postfinder-places/api#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-07: 78
- 2026-10-06: 77
- 2026-10-04: 76
- 2026-10-03: 76
- 2026-10-02: 75
- 2026-10-01: 75
- 2026-09-30: 74

## Common questions

### What is the PostFinder post offices and parcel points MCP server?

PostFinder post offices and parcel points is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.postfinder/places. Nearest post offices, parcel lockers and post boxes in AU, NZ, US, UK and Canada. Free, no key. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://api.postfinder.io/mcp).

### Is the PostFinder post offices and parcel points MCP server safe to use?

PostFinder post offices and parcel points scores 78 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the PostFinder post offices and parcel points MCP server expose?

PostFinder post offices and parcel points exposes 3 tools: find_places, get_place, search_places. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 289 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the PostFinder post offices and parcel points MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to PostFinder post offices and parcel points without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the PostFinder post offices and parcel points MCP server still maintained?

PostFinder post offices and parcel points is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 7 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://api.postfinder.io/mcp
- Website: https://postfinder.io/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-postfinder-places/api.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-postfinder-places/api.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/io-postfinder-places/api