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English: Penfold-type Victorian post box on King's Parade, Cambridge, by the main gate of King's College. This was the standard design for UK Post Office boxes between 1866–1879. This was the standard design for UK Post Office boxes between 1866–1879.
Mount Pleasant Post Office (2023). The Mount Pleasant Mail Centre (often shortened as Mount Pleasant, known internally as the Mount [1] and officially known as the London Central Mail Centre) [2] is a mail centre operated by Royal Mail in London, England. The site has previously operated as one of the largest sorting offices in the world. [3]
The reclamation and reuse of original Royal Mail post boxes in private homes, many stocked and sold by salvage yards, led to questions from the public about the legal position regarding their reuse [citation needed], which is the subject of expert opinion in a SalvoNEWS story from 2012: Private use of antique Royal Mail pillar boxes or post boxes.
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]
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.
The Letter Box: a history of Post Office pillar and wall boxes. Fontwell: Centaur Press. ISBN 0-900000-14-7. Proud, Edward B. (1991). The Postal History of British Air Mails. Heathfield: Proud-Bailey Co. Ltd. ISBN 1-872465-72-2. Reynolds, Mairead (1983). A History of The Irish Post Office. Dublin: MacDonnell Whyte. ISBN 0-9502619-7-1.
PO boxes in the lobby of a U.S. post office. Post office boxes are usually mounted in a wall of the post office, either an external wall or a wall in a lobby, so that staff on the inside may deposit mail in a box, while a key holder (some older post office boxes use a combination dial instead of a key) in the lobby or on the outside of the building may open their box to retrieve the mail.
The Post Office Railway, known since 1987 as Mail Rail, [1] is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to transport mail between sorting offices.