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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · 6d

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

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · 13d

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

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · 20d

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

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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · 27d

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 ☺️📮☁️🎉

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · 28d

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

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Sep 7

Falconwood / Albany Park? 💌

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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · Aug 30

“I’ve got letters and postcards a-plenty
I’ve got paper and notelets galore
You want cool postboxes? I’ve got twenty!
But who cares? No big deal, I want more!” OK, Little Mermaid, here’s a nice one in Puerto del Carmen too… Happy #PostboxSaturday, everyone! 😄📮🧜‍♀️🏝️❤️

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Aug 30

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George VI wall box housed in its own stone pillar in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · Aug 23

In Dublin’s fair city,
Where the postboxes are pretty,
Eldest first set her eyes on sweet green ones galore,
As An Post wheeled their barrow,
Through the streets, broad and narrow,
Crying “Letters and postcards, alive, alive, oh!” Happy #PostboxSaturday, folks! 🤩📮🇮🇪💚

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Aug 22

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this George V with its own back pack that lives in front of Oban Parish Church. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Aug 16

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this Scottish lamp box (with its own little tribute on the wall) outside Craignure Post Office that greets you on disembarking the ferry on the Isle of Mull. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy #PostboxSaturday, everyone! A celebration of the interconnectedness of humans via these magical postal portals and a reminder that no man is an island. (Unless you live on St Michael’s Mount where the postbox is out of action and the nearest town has no Post Office!) 🥹📮❤️

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Aug 9

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy #PostboxSaturday from these metal posting boxes set into Oban’s Post Office building, which was built in 1909 but features Scottish 17th century detailing. However, the best feature is their favourable collection times. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @letterappsoc.bsky.social

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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · Jul 27

No-one is expecting to pay peanuts but £1.70 for a 1st class stamp is sadly pricing lots of people out of sending letters. #RoyalMail 🥜💌

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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · Jul 26

Happy #PostboxSaturday, postbox friends! Had the loveliest few days away in beautiful Cornwall with postboxes galore! Thought I’d start here with some postal paradise at the Eden Project including a little expedition for the @postalpathsguy.bsky.social’s wonderful exploratory book… ☺️📮📗🌴🌿

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Peter Turner @peterturner.bsky.social · Jul 26

I send handwritten letters to friends at Christmas rather than printed round robins.

A round robin says "I am important enough to send a round robin".

A handwritten letter says "you are important enough to deserve a handwritten letter".

Whether my handwriting is legible is another matter.😀

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Jul 26

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this wall box that’s had its status enhanced courtesy of a tin of red paint. It lives in Ardlui, a hamlet located at the head of Loch Lomond, so features the Scottish Crown - like every Scottish post box since 1954. 💌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Jul 19

The Post Office appears to have served its time but this George VI pillar box is still going strong in Plumstead, south London. 💌#PostboxSaturday @letterappsoc.bsky.social

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Jul 12

Posting a goat always presents a challenge but this was Mission Impossible, because the Edward VII wall box with bullnose brick surround at Cambridge Station has been decommissioned - along with the stamp dispenser. 💌🐐
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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Jul 5

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this rare Edward VIII (abdicated 1936) pillar box that lives on the Falconwood Park Estate: approx 2000 new homes built on farmland in Welling in the 1930s. 💌 @letterappsoc.bsky.social @lbsg.org

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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thank you so much for sharing this. Hugely significant for us barcode-detesters! 😮✉️👍

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Jun 28

A huge chunk of Bexley farmland was converted to housing in the 1930s; I have another Ed VIII from the other side of the A2 to post next week. 💌

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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Jun 28

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this rare Edward VIII (abdicated 1936) pillar box standing opposite The Albany public house in Bexley, a mock Tudor building constructed in close proximity to Albany Park railway station which opened in 1935. 💌
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The Writing Web @thewritingweb.bsky.social · Jun 14

Happy #PostboxSaturday from this anonymous pillar box that has been receiving little letters under Brighton’s Grade II listed London Road Railway Viaduct since the Victorian era. 💌
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