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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Posting Box in Tobermory Post Office on the Isle of Mull. It was taken from the front of the original Post Office which now serves as a fish and chip shop 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Tickled to spot this topper on the Edward VIII pillar box in Tobermory harbour straight after a trip to see the awesome Fingal’s Cave and puffins on the Isle of Staffa. 💌 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social
There’s a lot to love about a cute card shop with a postbox built into its frontage, like this George VI wall box on Odiham High Street. 💌 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Type G pillar box across the road from Brixton Underground Station which celebrated its 55 year anniversary this week. 💌🚇 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this ERII lamp box in Buryfields, Hampshire. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
I wonder if the late Queen Elizabeth II spotted (or even used) this pair of wall boxes that bear her royal cypher when she opened The Barbican Centre? 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #PostboxSaturday
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this ERII pillar box in Orpington with crocheted topper celebrating the bicentenary of wildness and wonder at The Zoological Society of London. 💌🐘🦒🦓 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #ZSLat200
Wishing you a happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box at Deptford Broadway, close to where the ancient Watling Street crosses the River Ravensbourne. The modern name is thought to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon for ‘deep ford’.💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Turning on the lights … @letterappsoc.bsky.social #PostboxSaturday
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this type C dual aperture pillar box with the VR cypher on each door; it stands in Charterhouse Square in Farringdon, which sits atop a 14th-century plague pit. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
In the 90th anniversary year of his abdication, check out this rare Edward VIII pillar box in Elmers End. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social Happy #PostboxSaturday
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box by Eden Park Railway Station. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Victorian wall box outside St John’s Railway Station in Lewisham, which opened on 1st June 1873. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
It’s the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, so here’s a Victorian pillar box off the King’s Road. 💌🌺 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #PostboxSaturday
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box that was planted on The Webb Estate in Purley at the time the village was established. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this type K pillar box in Lewisham. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box in suburban Orpington. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday and #Koningsdag (King’s Day, celebrated on the 27th April) from this Dutch post box in Amsterdam. 💌🇳🇱 @letterappsoc.bsky.social #Oranjegekte
April showers at this George V pillar box in Purley. 💌 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from the Victorian pillar box outside Greenwich Railway Station, which opened during this week in 1840 making it one of the oldest surviving station buildings in the world! 💌🚂 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V wall box opposite the King’s Arms public house in Arundel, West Sussex. It’s the oldest pub in town (established circa 1625) but the current building was erected in the 19th century. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Yesterday was #WorldTheatreDay, so here’s a dual aperture Edward VII pillar box on Shaftesbury Avenue in London’s Theatreland. With stamp prices rising (again 😡) it’s the perfect place to post second class mail. 💌🎭 #PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V pillar box opposite former public house The Grange in Thornton Heath. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
I never post these Frankenstein monstrosities but it felt personal to see the trusty ERII pillar box on my local shopping parade undergoing the change this week. Frustrating, especially with a perfectly good Post Office nearby. 😢 #PostboxSaturday #SaveOurPostboxes @letterappsoc.bsky.social
I learned so much from facilitating @literacy-trust.bsky.social 'Building Vocabulary' training today with a fabulously disparate group of expert delegates, where a/Apple, o/Orange and o/Oyster (one for the London commuters) were referenced. 🙌🏾 #Etymology literacytrust.org.uk/training-and...
Wishing you a happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box at the entrance to St Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth. 💌🏴 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this type K pillar box partnered with a proper parcel box. They live outside Welling Library. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Edward VII pillar box in Orpington with a Lovely topper that celebrates #ValentinesDay and encourages donations to the British Heart Foundation. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
Happy 300th #PostboxSaturday from one of two octagonal VR pillar boxes featuring a vertical posting aperture in Framlingham, Suffolk. They celebrate their 170th birthdays this year! 💌🥳 @letterappsoc.bsky.social