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A post box topper is a crochet or knitted hat or bonnet for a pillar box designed as a tribute, commemoration, or for public enjoyment. In the United Kingdom they have been used to pay tribute to NHS workers during the coronavirus pandemic , for Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and in September 2022 as a tribute upon her death .
Ms Hopper, who owns The Vintage Emporium above Ms Page’s store, has created postbox toppers previously, but after her summer display was stolen earlier this year, she was hesitant to create another.
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.
English: A knitted postbox topper, commemorating the coronation of King Charles III, along Court Road in Goddington, London Borough of Bromley. Date 20 April 2023, 09:49:28
Post boxes are emptied ("cleared") at times usually listed on the box in a TOC (Times of Collection) plate affixed to the box. Since 2005, most British post boxes have had the time of only the last collection of the day listed on the box, with no indication of whether the box is cleared at other times earlier in the day.
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According to the Letter Box Study Group (LBSG), there are more than 450 locations in the UK and Republic of Ireland where Ludlow post boxes are in use, stored or preserved. As Royal Mail estimates that there are over 100,000 post boxes in the UK, the Ludlow style boxes represent a very small group of nonetheless important designs. [2]
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.