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crazy post box
a concrete monstrocity in the posh part of town. in the name of art. i love it.
church post box
a post box (and two bollards) at a church which looks like the postbox (and not the bollards). would be good to have a teeny weeny post box next to the wooden postbox.
have you got your post sorted yet ?
here's one of the last pictures i took in the uk
classic london street scene
this has got it all. a couple of metropolitan police bollards, a rubbish bin, a twin faced post box, and an abandoned plastic cutlery tray. And it's literally in hopping distance to Tony Blair, ex president of the UK's, house. (no political comment intended)
royal mail post box ... err .... box
what should you do with a postbox ? put it in a box. where will this all end ? box in a box in a box ? talking about thinking inside the box
i'm pretty certain if you wait long enough you can get a sign for almost every object on the planet with an arrow pointing at it with its name on. I hadn't expected this one to be quite so big though.
old and new
two jaunty angled post boxes. the pink one is actually one of the post people's drop off box things for when they are doing their rounds. but hey ho.
three recepticals
franked mail, stamped mail or the bin
1243
clockwise numbering
no junk mail only royal mail
i love this sign completely. it seems so lovelily british. you can imagine it being on the queen's front door. someone is still proud of this great and bizarre little country we live in. and hoorah for that i say.
the mysterious post box
i passed this post box last monday - this is it on the way home with a zooming post van behind it
i deliberately went this way back home to see if it was still surrounded by the barriers i had seen that morning
can you believe any postbox would be so busy it would need riot control techniques to restrict traffic to its mouth ? perhaps sunday collections are so rare these days that extreme calming measures are required ?
post office shortage
turns out this is a topical story as post office closures are upon us in greatest of all britains (see here). a number of closures were announced today.
anyway, i took this photo last week as it was a teeny postbox. like much smaller than usual. small enough for a toddler to pop a letter in (which is what they love doing, so is ideal). it's also good for the stooping elderly.
when i saw it over a grass verge i thought "wouldn't it be great to have a person next to it for scale" and suddenly this jogger ran by. a quick grab of the camera from its holster, shoot, fire, and there you have it.
royal mail
this is confusing. it's a royal mail bin. dressed up to look like a post box. standing next to a postbox.
perhaps it's a trainee post box ?
how i helped a postman
i spotted this postcard in the street so i naturally picked it up. i was surprised to see it hadn't been posted yet, although i don't think it had - there was no post mark and it was addressed to somewhere in cheshire.
so i carried it to the nearest postbox and posted it. it was address to a 'grandma and grandpa' and listed the sights that the grandson has seen that day in london. hopefully it will now be back on its way to the waiting grandparents.
postbox with a face
you'll need to click this photo to see the big version which clears shows that this postbox has eyes above it's mouth letter slot.
barcolonical postbox
thanks to Rik for sending me this rather sad postbox from barcelona.
the school post box
did your school have an internal post system at christmas ? mine did, and so has esther's (and kezia's preschool, but she thinks it's a lucky dip).
it's more preparation for office life where the internal post quickly becomes the infernal post. but that excitement for me never wears thin.
what's the most random thing you've ever sent my your company internal post ?
post box instructions
here is a post box. traditional, but still quite interesting. it's actually a siamese box. these post boxes are caused in the factor if the post box raw material doesn't split properly in the early stages of their development.
whoever painted this one got a little carried away with the red paint. in the days when i had long hippy hair (a few feet in length) i once dyed it pillar box red (Elton did it for me the first time). And flamingo pink. but that was a different time.
notice the sign on top of this box which points the way to the nearest post box. they'll probably need to change a few of these arrows since they are shutting lots of post offices down.
and how's this for good instructions. ignoring the paint job, it's worth considering what other types of box you would put your letters in and how ineffectual they would be.
shoe boxes, sandwich boxes, theatre boxes and match boxes would all prove quite useless i imagine.
