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On Christmas Day 2022, a knitted post box topper created by a woman using the pseudonym Syston Knitting Banxy appeared on an edition of Coronation Street. [ 9 ] In March 2023, Daily Mail journalist Jan Moir branded those who make post box toppers as "Woolly Delinquents," a label that the topper community, also known as "Yarn Bombers", has embraced.
Well, Christmas Day falls on Monday, Dec. 25 this year and Christmas Eve, Sunday, Dec. 24, a day when post offices are normally closed and there's no mail delivery. Is the post office open on ...
The festive Art Deco-style stamps are available to buy from Wednesday.
Royal Mail owns and maintains the UK's distinctive and iconic red pillar boxes, first introduced in 1852 (12 years after the first postage stamp, Penny Black), and other post boxes, many of which bear the royal cypher of the reigning monarch at the date of manufacture. [3]
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So, ideally, if you aim to mail out your holiday cards by December 3, they should arrive in the week leading up to Christmas Eve—but getting them to the post office by the day after Thanksgiving ...
The foundry, which was dissolved in 2016, was the sole supplier of cast-iron pillar boxes to the Royal Mail since the 1980s and had seen orders dwindle to a single box a year. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Exceptions to this are the Supermarket or "Inside" boxes supplied by Broadwater Mouldings Ltd of Eye, Suffolk and the sheet steel "Garage" boxes supplied ...
An estimated 31 million people were hit by letter delays over Christmas as Royal Mail “let consumers down for a third year running”, Citizens Advice said.