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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! 💌🥳
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box still in service outside a former Post Office in East Dulwich. 💌
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box quietly doing its thing in suburban Shirley, on the border between Croydon and Bromley. 💌
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Rest assured, no-one need ever feel left alone on #PostboxSaturday. There are loads of us out and about around the world capturing photos of our local postboxes in celebration of these beautiful iconic historic magical postal portals. Join us! 😄📮👀🌍👍

BIG Thanks to the lovely postie who paused his deliveries on a drizzly day in Welling to snap me making use of this George V pillar box. 💌
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from my favourite pillar box - the lesser spotted Teddy the Seventh of Tobermory looking dapper in his snow beret before sunrise earlier this week. 💌
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Happy New Year from this anonymous pillar box: a Victorian era contemporary of traditional backstreet boozer The Olde Apple Tree in Peckham, built in 1871. 💌
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Happy #PostboxSaturday, folks! It’s that time of the Christmas celebrations when I feel somewhere between Father Christmas on the left and the little boy on the right. Delighted to have remembered it’s Saturday! #Twixmas 😂🎄📮🍫🥧🛌👍

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this dual aperture ERII pillar box on Regent Street. 💌
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It’s always magical to see a Christmas post box serving a school community. This one receives Christmas cards and letters to Santa from the children at Angel Oak Academy in Peckham. 💌
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‘Twas the #PostboxSaturday before Christmas, when all through the land
Not a happier event than from this merry band;
The pictures of postboxes to show that we care,
In hopes that these beauties will always be there.

Merry Christmas, everyone! 😁📮🎄🐭🧦🎅

A red postbox in a wall next to a telephone box. These are outside Edinburgh zoo.

We're sending our mail from the zoo
Postcards and Christmas cards too.
The penguins and pandas and sloths all send cheer
From Edinburgh at this special time of the year.

#postboxSaturday 💌📮🎄🐧🐼🦥

Celebrating @letterappsoc.bsky.social #ChristmasCardDay at one of the UKs oldest pillar boxes, an octagonal VR specimen with a vertical posting aperture. One of a pair installed in Framlingham, Suffolk in 1856. 💌🤶🏾
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Who’s saving up Christmas cards to send on 9th December (next Tuesday) in celebration of #ChristmasCardDay and Sir Henry Cole? 🙋‍♂️🎄🎩📮🎉
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Signposting this Tuesday’s festive @letterappsoc.bsky.social #ChristmasCardDay at my nearest post box, a wonderful Victorian specimen. 🧑🏾‍🎄
I’ll be posting mine on the 9th but should you miss out, final dates are:
📮 17th Dec for 2nd class
📮 20th Dec for those who can afford 1st class
#PostboxSaturday 💌

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI wall box set into the boundary wall of Winchester College, which was founded in 1382. 💌
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Representing the phoneme -oa- 🙌🏾
I spotted this ERII post box participating in the phonics trail on a trip down memory lane, visiting Brighton University School of Education. 💌
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Happy #PostboxSaturday from this post box outside Pescara Airport, Italy. 💌🇮🇹 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this decorated George VI pillar box in Petts Wood. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social
#LestWeForget2025 #ArmisticeDay

Throwback to my favourite Edward VIII pillar box - the less famous of two in Tobermory - this #PostboxSaturday, because tomorrow is The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society’s 8th birthday. 💌
I’m in awe of and grateful for what you’ve created, Dinah
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#THLAS8

How to explain why we all need to write letters? Many do already but if not, the joy of handwritten correspondence from someone real, somewhere different, with life experiences and knowledge new to us, is something everyone should experience. Be brave. Write to a friend today. ✉️

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this giant George V wall box that lives in the forecourt of Brighton Railway Station facing down the hill towards to sea. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

This week our uni kid phoned me about an essay and those 'blank page' worries so I said 'just tell me the essay out loud'. I recorded the conversation for my kid to transcribe and it worked! The *thinking* has to be there before the writing, otherwise you're putting your brain out to pasture. 3/3 😘

The thing about writing is it's about *thinking* rather than about transcribing your thinking. That's a big reason why I'd never use AI to write (among many other reasons). I want to do the thinking! I've got a couple of anecdotes about this in case anyone is interested. 1/3 🧵⬇️

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this pair of ERII Type K pillar boxes that stand outside the Milton Keynes shopping centre that Cliff Richard skated around in his 1981 ‘Wired for Sound’ video. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Victorian pillar box that stands at the bottom of Beauchamp Road, home of the Clapham Welsh Presbyterian Chapel (Capel Cymraeg Clapham), est 1897 to serve the burgeoning Welsh population. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Victorian wall box with bullnose brick surround built into the Grade II listed Church House in Lingfield. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this ERII wall box on the front of Lingfield railway station, which adjoins Lingfield Park racecourse. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

Happy #PostboxSaturday, everyone! This is the postbox that started the hashtag, found on Peveril Downs, the place where the idea for The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society was born. #Swanage ☺️📮☁️🎉

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI pillar box on the Mile End Road in Bow. It has a security panel on the righthand side to prevent it from being prised open with a crowbar, despite being steps away from The Thames Magistrates’ Court! 💌 ⚖️ @letterappsoc.bsky.social