The lovely thing about letter writers is they’re not after fame or recognition or awards or “Oo, look at me!” They just quietly go about cheering people up by sending letters or cards or nice gifts through the post that only writer and recipient know about. #DeskGallery ☺️✉️✨

Hope you’ve all had a lovely #PostboxSaturday. Just a little montage of the comings and goings at THLAS HQ this week. Keep sending letters and postcards, folks! 😁📮⚽️🐯💌

Happy 323rd #PostboxSaturday, all you lovely postbox-spotters! If you have items of post that aren’t in a rush to get there do consider using some of the 9am postboxes, just to keep them in the game. (Membership packs always go in Old Faithful) ☺️📮⚽️👍

So excited to be in the Swanage Carnival programme! Can’t wait to join in the fun on Monday 27th July! Everyone, of all ages, welcome to come and write an exclusive Carnival postcard! Hope to see you there! 🤠🎪✉️🎉

Hand on heart, it definitely feels like everything’s coming up roses when you have seeds to send and pretty stamps to use… 😁🌹✉️❤️

No-one on God’s green earth will ever convince me that coming home to exciting and intriguing post is not worth holding onto… ☺️✉️🌍

Mrs Goggins said we might as well stay and celebrate Henry Cole’s birthday anyway. Also well done to England for making it this far. ☺️⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✉️🎉

Hoping England give Sir Henry Cole something to write home about on his birthday. We’re up the shed pub writing a #ChristmasPostcard or two listening out for the sound of cheering from the local real pub. Happy birthday, Henry! 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️✉️🍻🤞🎉

Happy birthday to Henry Cole, inventor of the Christmas Card! If you like sending things in the post put a 🎄 in the comments. To really celebrate send Royal Mail a #ChristmasPostcard (FREEPOST, Royal Mail Customer Services) to ask for a 50p postcard stamp! Cheers! 🥳📮🥂🎉

Some people will be getting the new #ChristmasPostcard prototype this week in celebration of Sir Henry Cole’s 218th birthday tomorrow! Amazed I found the spare cards in the loft, and it was lovely to play with all our Christmas stampers in the heat of the summer! 😁🎄✉️☀️🎉

I always take “eccentric” as a compliment… 😄🪶📜👍

It’s Henry Cole’s 218th birthday on Wednesday! Let’s celebrate by sending postcards (for FREE!) to Daniel and Alistair (owner and CEO) at Royal Mail to see if they’d consider a 50p postcard stamp. Quite excited at the idea of Christmas Postcards too! #ChristmasCardDay 😁🎩🎄📮🎉

Match ready! (Shame Cole Palmer isn’t playing for England tonight cos he was born on #PennyBlackDay in 2002!) 🤩⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✉️

Been having a little #PostboxSaturday sort up the Letter Writing Shed… Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed to this treasured collection. 🤩🏠📮❤️

If you search “postbox” in your camera roll, how many photos do you find? (Genuinely intrigued!) Happy #PostboxSaturday to all you fellow postbox fanatics! 😂📮📸👀👍

Had a little re-count to see how many States in America have members of The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society in, and unless I’m mistaken there’s only four to go! Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota and West Virginia. Chuffed we have a total of 309 USA members! 🤩🇺🇸🧮✉️🎉

Putting membership packs in the postbox. Just like that! 😄📮👍

A big thank you to the Swanage Carnival team for getting some exclusive postcards made for people to send to friends and loved ones from our letter writing stand at Sandpit Field on Monday 27th July. All free (stamps to buy if needed). Everyone welcome! 🥰🎪🏖️✉️

How can the digital world replicate someone sending you feathers in the post to make quills out of? (Answer: it can’t) ☺️🪶🤖💌

Happy #PostboxSaturday to all our American members this #4thOfJuly! Been rearranging my postbox collection and found this little beauty. Happy 250th Birthday too! 🥳📬🇺🇸🎂🎉

Happy #PostboxSaturday, lovelies! A coveted Ludlow discovered lurking not too far from Lulworth Cove! 🤩📮🎉

I’m guessing sending clogs to the Netherlands is the same as carrying coals to Newcastle… 😄🇳🇱💌

Need a castle? Royal Mail have you covered… ☺️🏰💌

Please can you tell me a little something you find lovely about letter writing. It can be anything from pretty stationery, a treasured letter from a loved one, a note from someone famous, a new pen, or a chance to unplug. Just to brighten the day. Thanking you kindly… ☺️✍️✉️

If any members of The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society would like one of our new badges click on the link to find out how to get one… 😁✉️🎉 thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/new-society-...

Visitor attraction ➡️ cup of tea ➡️ gift shop ➡️ postcards (pretty stamps if possible) ➡️ postbox. What other way is there? 😄🏛️☕️🛍️📮❤️

Thanks everso for once again making my #DeskGallery in the Letter Writing Shed a reminder that there are many many sweet, kind, caring, generous souls out there. A beautiful collection of cards from English Country Gardens to lovely Summer Holidays, home or abroad. 🥰😎🌺🌼✈️🎶💌

Happy #Caturday, folks! Still bowled over that member, Axel Scheffler (Gruffalo illustrator), drew a series of stampers for us to help raise funds for The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society. Here’s the link if anybody would like to see them… 😻💌 www.englishstamp.com/art-stamps/t...

When a friend sends a postbox photo from on holiday and you think it’s ginormous until you see the second picture! Happy #PostboxSaturday to everyone, big and small! 😄📮🔎💛

Huge thanks to all the wonderful posties delivering our precious letters in the sunny weather. All us letter writers really appreciate you. Thanks so much. 😎🥰✉️☀️🩳❤️