Post by crazyquilter on Jul 15, 2015 10:14:36 GMT -5
Thanks to @michaelcayley post on the English history of Mailboxes, I thought it would make a good topic. So please share your pictures and your thoughts.
Post by crazyquilter on Jul 15, 2015 10:24:49 GMT -5
In some the old westerns movies they have some of the best old post office pictures. I find this way very interesting and could spend hours just looking at all the great detail.
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crazyquilter, @michaelcayley, I recall a site about British letterboxes I visited a year or so ago and with the help of Mr. Google I found it again. Here is the link: www.wicks.org/pulp/index.html
Last Edit: Jul 15, 2015 14:13:55 GMT -5 by MikeC99
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Post by Gordon Lee on Jul 15, 2015 14:31:22 GMT -5
Greetings Fellow SB Boarders . Way back when I was spry and a young feller (under the age of twelve), one of the best things about visiting the local post office was looking at the wall where all the FBI Most Wanted posters were mounted. Sometimes I tried to see if any family or friends pictures showed up. I don't see those posters much any more. . Respectfully,
Greetings Fellow SB Boarders . Way back when I was spry and a young feller (under the age of twelve), one of the best things about visiting the local post office was looking at the wall where all the FBI Most Wanted posters were mounted. Sometimes I tried to see if any family or friends pictures showed up. I don't see those posters much any more. . Respectfully,
Gordon Lee
Oh Yes Gordon Lee, I remember seeing wanted dead or alive posters in the old John Wayne movies.
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I am a letter writer, snailmail addict. I send therefore I receive. I also manage a letter writing/correspondence forum called A World of Snail Mail. I sometimes post pictures on Instagram (username morgaine_does_snail_mail) Stamp themes - science, nature, postal history, maps, nice stamps.
This must be one of the remotest postboxes in Scotland. It is on the tiny island of Pabay, off the East coast of Skye - an island which is about half a square mile in area and currently has no permanent inhabitants, though until relatively recently there was a small resident population swelled in summer by a few tourists. There is no official postal service: in the past there was a weekly delivery and collection by the British Post Office, which was insufficient to meet the residents' needs, so the island's owner, a potter who lived there, introduced a local post in the early 1960s.
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