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Nice George V wall box in its own little pillar but what is the mystery green box next to it? 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Red George V wall box in a standalone brick pillar. Next to it is a green pipe leading up to a metal green box with a padlock on it.
November 14, 2026 at 8:06 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Your patience will be rewarded. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Close up of a red pillar box with a small enamel sign attached to it stating 'AWAIT DELIVERY OF STAMP BEFORE INSERTING A FURTHER COIN'.
November 7, 2026 at 8:15 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Red post boxes with the red bricks. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
A red pillar box next to a red parcel box. They are in front of a large red brick building.
October 31, 2026 at 7:28 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
I don't know what this post box has been up to over the years but at some point the door has been repaired. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Small, red Victorian wall set into a brick wall. Around halfway on the door there is a line showing the door has either had a replacement panel put in or it has been repaired on the other side.
October 24, 2026 at 7:09 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Choose carefully where you post your letters - avoid the rubbish bin! 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
A line up of a red parcel and franked mail post box, a black rubbish bin, and a Type C red double aperture pillar box. They are outside a Royal Mail Delivery Office. Above the Type C pillar box is a sign that says, 'Post Boxes'.
October 17, 2026 at 7:07 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Royal Mail should have installed these first before chopping up perfectly fine pillar boxes. I doubt these will be around in 60+ years. At least we still have something to post our letters in. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
New style red Royal Mail combined parcel and letter posting box. For parcels there is a pull down handle to put the parcel in. Underneath is an aperture for letters.
October 10, 2026 at 6:50 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
The leaning Penfold of Durham. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Replica red Penfold pillar box in front of Durham Cathedral. It is leaning to one side.
September 26, 2026 at 6:43 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
How long will this little set up be around? It's a post office situated upstairs in a TG Jones complete with self service units, parcel and post boxes plus a counter with staff. Many towns will soon be without a post office. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
In store post office set up with three self service tills with scales and payment screens. To the side, up against the wall is a slim three box arrangement of indoor posting boxes.
September 19, 2026 at 6:45 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Imagine just being able to pop out of your house to post a letter in the post box built into your wall. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Red Edward VII wall box with enlarged aperture. It is placed in a stone wall with a house made of the same stone in the background.
September 12, 2026 at 7:39 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
A rarely spotted GR Type C pillar box with a rarely spotted late summer London flower display. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
A red double aperture pillar box with a GR cypher on it. Behind it is a house with four flower troughs filled with blooming pink flowers.
September 5, 2026 at 6:53 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
A rarely seen 1pm and 11.15am collection time. This is on Holy Island so really the collection time is when the tide allows access to the island! 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Red lamp box on a black pedestal. The metal plate under the aperture shows the crown and cypher for Elizabeth II. The collection plate shows the collection time for Monday to Friday to be 1pm and 11.15am on Saturday.
August 29, 2026 at 7:46 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Post boxes in Berlin don't have much variety but there are two post delivery services. The yellow boxes are those of Deutsche Post and the green pillar box is PIN Mail. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
The corner of a building with a pharmacy inside. At right angles to each other are two yellow posting boxes both with two apertures. They are held up by two metal posts. Slightly around the corner is a bright green rectangular pillar box. All the boxes are covered in graffiti.
August 22, 2026 at 6:24 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Of course I went on holiday to the home of the first postal museum in the world! Now known as The Museum for Communication Berlin, it originally opened in 1872. #postboxsaturday
#BriefkastenSamstag #PostBoxDiary
Me in a bright red jacket standing in front of a selection of post boxes mounted on a large wall. The post boxes are from various countries across Europe.
August 15, 2026 at 7:10 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
I'm not saying it has been dry around these parts but even the weeds at the base of the pillar box have frazzled. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Red George V pillar box with frazzled, yellow weeds growing out of the base.
August 8, 2026 at 5:42 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
"POSTBOX OF THE FUTURE COMING SOON" - This pillar box has been wrapped up this since this last year! It only has an 8in aperture and all the solar boxes have been converted from 10in boxes. Has the door been lost or cut into by mistake? 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Red pillar box with the door taken off and wrapped in black plastic. There is an official Royal Mail notice on it saying it is out of order and 'Postbox of the future coming soon'.
August 1, 2026 at 5:43 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Triple threat. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Royal Mail delivery office building with three different red posting boxes in front of it. One is a parcel locker with QR scanner. In front of that is a rectangular parcel and franked mail box plus a joined pair of rectangular Type G pillar boxes.
July 25, 2026 at 6:36 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
The apertures for the dodgiest post box I have ever come across are still on the door of the old post office in Bath. The sign for the now defunct Bath Postal Museum also survives. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Brown wooden door situated in a large light coloured stone building. In the middle of the door is a metal plate with two posting apertures with flaps on it. Above the apertures is a red sign with yellow writing saying 'FRANKED MAIL ONLY'.
July 18, 2026 at 7:23 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
I rushed over in the hope I was going to see the inside of an original Penfold pillar box but the postie was just delivering rather than collecting.📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Large red hexagonal shaped Penfold pillar box situated on the edge of the pavement. Parked behind it is a red Royal Mail van with its back doors open.
July 11, 2026 at 6:31 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Levitating lamp box. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Red Royal Mail lamp box. It is fully surrounded by green foliage so the black pole it is on cannot be shown.
July 4, 2026 at 7:16 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Here's a rare treat for you this #postboxsaturday - a traditional village post office complete with its own wall box. 📮 #PostBoxDiary
A brick built building with a bay window. Above it is the post office sign. Next to the window is a red EIIR wall box.
June 27, 2026 at 6:20 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
I'm often asked how you can tell if a George V pillar box was once a blue airmail box. My top tips are to look for the chunky collection plate holder and find a post box that hasn't been painted in a long time! 📮 #postboxsaturday #postboxdiary
Red pillar box side on. The red paint has flaked off showing blue paint underneath. The collection plate holder is double the width of a standard one.
June 20, 2026 at 9:44 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Back to The Postal Museum Store for #postboxsaturday. A fine example of a Liverpool Special, which is a fancy version of a First National Standard pillar box. 📮 #PostBoxDiary
Red pillar box with a base in a matt finish of a different shade of red. On the top it has a crown on top.
June 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
I went to visit Virginia Woolf's cottage in the most quintessential English village you could imagine. The setting of the post box in the wall of the old rectory did not disappoint. 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Very large house with multiple tall chimneys. The exterior of the house is covered in flint stones. The wall surrounding the house is also made of flint stone. There is a George VI wall box built into it.
June 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
I found another Charlie pillar box this week. That makes four pillar boxes spotted but no lamp boxes! With Brighton's sea air and abundance of seagulls I'm not convinced about the longevity of this post box! 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Red pillar with a Charles III cypher. It is positioned at the entrance of Brighton's Royal Mail Delivery Office.
May 30, 2026 at 8:29 AM
nesscharles.bsky.social
Does anyone remember this type of postal suite? From the 'Coal not Dole' sticker I presume it was operational in the early to mid 1980s. Were they put in post offices or other locations? 📮 #postboxsaturday #PostBoxDiary
Metal postal suite in mainly red with yellow at the top and in the middle where the two apertures are. On the top yellow section is a sticker that says 'Coal not Dole'. On the top half there are two stamp machines selling a book of stamps for 50p. In the middle yellow panel are two posting apertures. One is labelled 'London numbered districts only' and the other 'All other places'. Underneath each one is the space for the post to drop into.
May 23, 2026 at 6:52 AM