Lamp postbox

A backblip because the computer was playing up!

An easy blip through the car window when collecting the newspapers from the village shop.

Pillar boxes first appeared on Jersey in the Channel Islands at the suggestion of Anthony Trollope the novelist in the early 1850's before being built in England a year later. He got the idea from seeing similar ones in France. Twenty years later in the 1870's post boxes were built into walls in villages and country areas. The bulk of letters continued to increase over the years so in the 1890's onwards "lamp" post boxes were attached to poles. This idea came from the US. There are still a number of VR wall boxes surviving (Victoria Regina) but most are more recent. The one above is ER if I can see correctly!

My aunt who lived in very rural area just off Dartmoor used to post her letters in a box which the snails loved to climb into and often the envelopes were half eaten and some of the addresses obliterated before arriving at their destination!