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Edward VII box with aperture on door, post 1905, fitted with telephone direction sign. New post box designs were ordered in 1887 for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. For the first time there was a lamp-post mounted letter box for use in London squares, but which soon established themselves in rural areas (see lamp boxes).
A Penfold Hexagonal postbox. This was the standard design for UK Post Office boxes between 1866–1879. This example is on King's Parade, Cambridge beside the main gate of King's College. Traditionally UK post boxes are marked with the initials of the r
Lamp boxes are the smallest of the post boxes used by the Royal Mail in the UK, by its counterparts in the Commonwealth of Nations and also by An Post in Ireland. Their name derives from the fact that they were designed to be affixed to lamp posts , [ 1 ] although they may equally be found embedded in walls or mounted on poles.
Postbox of the Russian Post in Moscow. A post box (British English; also written postbox; also known as pillar box), also known as a collection box, mailbox, letter box or drop box (American English), is a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail intended for collection by the agents of a country's postal service.
The gold post box in Arleston, Telford, that commemorates the gold medal won by paralympian Mickey Bushell.. To commemorate British gold medal winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, various post boxes in the home towns of the medal winners around the United Kingdom, plus one each on Sark and the Isle of Man, were repainted gold.
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Wall boxes are a type of post box or letter box found in many countries including France, the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Nations, Crown dependencies and Ireland. They differ from pillar boxes in that, instead of being a free-standing structure, they are generally set into a wall (hence the name) or supported on a free-standing pole ...
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