APRIL 2025 – ROYAL MAIL UNVEILS POSTBOX OF THE FUTURE TO MAKE SENDING PARCELS EASIER 10th April 2025 | LBSG Chair | 1 Comment Royal Mail has unveiled a solar-powered postbox of the future as the company continues to find ways to make sending parcels easier. The iconic postbox design has been given a modern makeover including an extra-large opening to accept parcels larger than those that fit through a letterbox for the first time. Customers scan their parcel’s… Read More
DECEMBER 2020 – DIGITAL CHRISTMAS POST BOXES 22nd December 2020 | Robert Cole | Leave a comment Four post boxes, one located in each UK nation, have been made digitally active to mark Christmas 2020. Each box has a QR code linking to a special festive message from Santa. Royal Mail says it wanted to: “spread yuletide cheer” as well as remind people to send letters, cards and parcels early for Christmas.… Read More
APRIL 2026 – BELFAST’S NEW SOLAR-POWERED CHARLES III PARCEL POSTBOX 29th April 2026 | LBSG Chair | Leave a comment Royal Mail launched today the first of a completely new design of solar-powered parcel postbox. Sited outside Ulster University’s Birley Building in Belfast ‘s York Street, it is the first parcel postbox in Northern Ireland to bear the cipher of King Charles III and has a special plaque attached to record the event. Students from… Read More
MARCH 2026 – BOXES STANDING THE TEST OF TIME 4th March 2026 | LBSG Chair | 2 Comments On 18th February 2026 the Daily Mail published a question about letter boxes in its ‘Answers to Correspondents’ Section: ‘How many Victorian letter boxes are still in use across the country and do they have a preservation order on them?’ LBSG Chair Andrew R Young responded with the answer which was published in the paper… Read More
DECEMBER 2025 – ROYAL MAIL POST BOX LIFTS SPIRITS FOR STAFF IN ANTARCTICA 18th December 2025 | LBSG Chair | 1 Comment The staff at the UK’s Rothera Research Station in Antarctica have been gifted a Royal Mail lamp box featuring the King Charles III cypher – just in time for Christmas. The new post box was requested by Kirsten Shaw, a station support assistant who runs a British Antarctic Territory Post Office for staff at Rothera… Read More
SEPTEMBER 2025 – ROYAL MAIL DELIVERS SOLAR-POWERED POSTBOXES NATIONWIDE 4th September 2025 | Isla Kennedy | 2 Comments After a successful trial in April, Royal Mail now are rolling out ‘postboxes of the future’ to 3,500 postboxes across the UK. These are modifications to existing Elizabeth II and Scottish Crown pillar boxes rather than brand new ones. The main features are a modified aperture with a small slot for letters; a drop-down drawer… Read More
JUNE 2025 – KNITTED POSTBOX TOPPERS TAKE OVER LBSG MEMBER’S MUSEUM 3rd June 2025 | LBSG Chair | Leave a comment Letter Box Study Group member Arthur Reeder owns the largest collection of postboxes in the UK – some 260 of them, in all sorts of shapes and sizes from earliest Victorian boxes to the present day. What better a location for a group of knitters to yarn bomb to raise money for an Alzheimer’s… Read More
MARCH 2025 – HAVE YOU SEEN A CHARLES III LETTER BOX YET? 14th March 2025 | LBSG Chair | 7 Comments The first letter box bearing the cipher of King Charles III entered service on 12 July 2024. That pillar box, on the High Street, Great Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, carries a special plaque on the back, recording its historic role. It has taken some time for further examples to arrive on the streets, but Charles III postboxes… Read More
JULY 2024 – THE FIRST CIIIR POSTBOX IS UNVEILED LIVE ON BBC BREAKFAST 15th July 2024 | LBSG Chair | Leave a comment BBC1 covered the unveiling of the first Charles III postbox extensively in its breakfast programme on Friday 12th July. Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty introduced John Maguire who was reporting live from the High Street in Great Cambourne. … Read More
JULY 2024 – FIRST CIIIR POSTBOX ENTERS SERVICE 12th July 2024 | Simon Vaughan WInter | Leave a comment The first post box with the CIIIR cipher of the new king entered service at 8.00am today (12th July). The box was unveiled on the High Street, Great Cambourne, by pupils from The Vine Inter-Church Primary School in Upper Cambourne and HM Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Mrs Julie Spence OBE CStJ QPM. The pupils posted the… Read More
APRIL 2024 – “BEGINNER’S LETTER BOXES” BOOKLET 8th April 2024 | LBSG Chair | 1 Comment The Letter Box Study Group has added a “Beginner’s Letter Boxes” booklet to the Welcome Pack that new Members receive when joining. It explains how to spot some key characteristics which will help them identify some of the many types of letter box they may encounter. Designed to get new Members started in the hobby,… Read More